Christ in 3 John

This shortest of all the books is held together by a single word - truth - and that word is, in the end, a Person. The elder loves Gaius in the truth (v. 1), rejoices over the truth that is in thee (v. 3), and says I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in truth (v. 4). Truth here is not a doctrine merely held but a path walked, and the One who is Himself the path said, I am the way, the truth, and the life (John 14:6); to walk in truth is to walk in Him,…