Sin is very deceitful. It is good to be reminded of this fact – we are easily led astray by our sin into thinking that we are alright with God, even as we linger in our sin. Do we really exhibit the kind of faith to which the Bible calls us? The kind of faith that upholds the greatest commandment “to love the Lord your god with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind” (Matt 22:37, ESV) – or, in other words, to honor Jesus? But what does that look like? How can we keep ourselves from being misled into thinking that we love God, when we only love the idol of God we made? John here helps us to see how to rightly honor Jesus.
