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Third John, verse four, says I have no greater joy than to hear that my children are walking in the truth.

I love this verse.

I have no greater joy,

John says, then when I hear this, when I hear that my children, and we know he's talking

about spiritual children here, although there's clearly application to physical children as well, but to hear that my children,

people who I've had the opportunity to

shepherd

when I hear that they are walking for

or entrusted with the responsibility to shepherd

when I hear that they are walking in the truth.

That's what we want more than anything else.

I think about my life as a dad, more than anything else.

I want my kids to walk in the truth.

I'm not to walk in the lies of the adversary in the lies of this world.

I want them to walk in the truth of God's word and the

truth of God's love for them and the truth of what it means to experience

eternal life in him I want them to walk in that truth.

And not just for my physical children.

I want this for every person around me.

I want this for the people that I have the privilege of

pasturing. They would walk in the truth they would be guarded from the lies of

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