6 January

Throughout our lives, we would have overcome many kinds of challenges and hurdles. There are also many other challenges and hurdles which we may still be trying to overcome or have yet to overcome, and one of which is avoiding sin. We face many temptations in life, some obvious, some so subtle, that we need to constantly discern whether a particular action or certain words could lead us or others to sin.

In today's reading, we are reminded: "Who can overcome the world? Only the man who believes that Jesus is the Son of God... God has given us eternal life and this life is in his Son; anyone who has the Son has life, anyone who does not have the Son does not have life." When we have life in Jesus, then we would have much help in overcoming sin, since Jesus has given us life. If we have found that we have been drifting away from God, or neglecting our life in Jesus, may we come to realise our situation, and return to life in Jesus, walking in His ways and growing in relationship with Him, for the betterment of our eternal future.