His feet led Him to the Cross. He died there for you and me, and your feet and my feet are running away. But He’s still saying today, “Turn around. Come to Me.” That’s the way I got saved, and if you got saved, that’s the way you got saved. He took out after you. Because His feet are the feet that came to this earth to bring glad tidings, to bring salvation, to bring to man the way to God. If you’re willing to come to Him. You’ll have to be willing to come to His feet. They’re nail-pierced feet, pierced for you, human feet.

Now our Lord set an example in that you and I are to look to Him for instruction. He’ll show us. And also for encouragement. And today if you and I are walking in the will and work of God, it’ll relieve the mind of its anxieties. It will ensure peace of mind in a world that’s filled with turmoil today. And it will deliver you from frustration. When you’re busy doing something and it doesn’t work out and falls to pieces in your hands, if you know you’re in the will and work of God, then that’s all right. You’ll not be frustrated, and there’ll be no disappointment, and there’ll be no defeat.

Have you ever noticed that for 1900 years He has been blessing this world? He ascended into heaven in the attitude of blessing. And the last view that the world had of Him, His hands were outstretched. Not on the cross, but outstretched in blessing. That’s very suggestive. His hands are outstretched to a world today, and He wants to say, “Behold, I stand at the door, and knock. If any may will open the door I’ll come in to him and sup with him, and he with me” And that’s the human heart, with His hands today He knocks at your heart’s door.

“If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and cleanse us from all unrighteousness.” Do you know this morning what that is? To have a Savior who is a Great Physician? Who knows you as no one knows you? And to be able to go to Him? Oh, He’ll never turn you down. You can go and tell Him. Do you know what I’ve been doing? I ride a great deal by myself. I’m trying to make Jesus Christ as real to me in that car as a person sitting there and to tell Him everything.

What is it that this poor saint walking down here today who has it in his heart a desire to live for God above everything else, and yet who sees his weakness, he sees his faults. He’s walking in the light of the Word of God and yet he wants to please God. What can he do? May I say to you, there’s good news for him. I know it’s familiar, but let’s listen to it. “If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just ….” And the word “just” means He’s righteous. God is right when He forgives us. Well, how can He be righteous? I’ll tell you why. Because He promised to forgive us.

“If we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son just keeps on cleansing us from all sin.” You can have fellowship with Him today, not because of who you are, not because that you today think you can bring God down to your plane, but you can have fellowship with Him because Jesus Christ shed His blood to make it possible. And that’s the basis on which any of us will have fellowship with Him.

John was presenting Jesus Christ. He says to them, “I want to present to you this person—this person that I happen to know. And I want to tell you about Him, and from that you’ll have fellowship, and from that your joy will be full.” And may I say to you, you cannot have fellowship, you cannot have joy as a child of God apart from Jesus Christ. He’s the very source. And it is your relationship to Him that will determine both your fellowship and your joy today.

“These things write we unto you, that your joy may be full.” That is the thing that is very important for us, I think, today to see. Something that a preacher has to keep in mind. It’s the high note. It is the ultimate aim of preaching, actually. It doesn’t mean that a preacher shouldn’t preach on conviction and sin, for he should. But through conviction and through repentance and through turning to God, there ought to be joy. That is the ultimate aim. And this is the thing that John says, “I’m writing that your joy might be full.” God wants His people to rejoice. God wants us to come into His presence with joy.

The Lord is good, and He’s “a stronghold in the day of trouble.” Are you having any trouble? Well, if you want to get to a good shelter, the Lord is that shelter. “And He knoweth those who trust in Him.” I’m very happy that I’m not going to get lost in the shuffle. I won’t get lost in the multitude. And I’m very happy that the Scripture says, “He knoweth those who trust in Him.” He doesn’t have to have an IBM machine to record your name. Actually, He’s got you written on His heart. He’s written your name on the palms of His hands. He knows you. He knows those who’ve trusted Him.

You remember the Psalmist said, “The Lord is good. Let the redeemed of the Lord say so.” And if the redeemed don’t say so, nobody’s going to say so. So, I’m going to say so: God is good. God is good, friend. That’s wonderful to know. I don’t know who you are, where you are, or how you are, but wherever you are God today loves you. And God wants to save you. And if you’re not saved just because you won’t come to Him because He can save you and He will save you. God is good. That’s an axiom of Scripture and it’s an axiom of life. The Lord is good.