“Grace be with you, mercy, and peace, from God the Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of the Father, in truth and love” (2 John 3).

Grace. Mercy. Peace. God. Truth. Love.

All I need.

This morning peace strummed my heart strings in a particular way.

I really have been needing it the last day and a half.

I’ve been very conscious of my deep need for it, in fullness, in abundance, in completeness.

So I was glad to read this verse this morning.

And I am grateful to God for His promise of peace.

And the hope of peace.

And the reality of peace.

We live in an age when it is less and less “proper” to believe and say that Jesus is the only way to be saved.

Such a view is being branded as exclusive and insensitive. And unloving. Wrong, in other words.

If someone is Buddhist, don’t tell them Jesus is the only way? If someone is Muslim, don’t tell them salvation is only through Jesus? If someone deifies nature or worships their shoe, don’t tell them only Jesus is worthy?

Listen to the one opinion that matters — that of the One True God:

“He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life” (1 John 5:12).

Am I alive spiritually? Yes! Because I have the Son!

(I wonder if other people would agree with that opinion I have of myself . . . .)