"Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love."
1 John 4:7,8
We continue this week in 1 John and for obvious reasons, his view on love is Inspiring and challenging.
When asked for the greatest command Jesus said to love God with all our heart, soul, mind and body. He then added that the second command was similar to the first, in fact it builds on it, to love your neighbor as yourself.
We may look a little sideways at that. God how can we do that with people that we just don't like or that don't like us? John gives us the answer in this verse from 1 John 4. It isn't us loving them it is God through us loving. The love I have comes not out of my own heart, but from God. This is how I know that he is in me; there is a love and care for others that didn't come from me.
If on the other hand I lack love for others then the question becomes is God real in my life. Now when we say "love" that's not to say I have warm fuzzy feelings for everyone, but I care about them, and for their need. We should love others enough to share Christ and his love with them. We need to pray for them.
When I love others in Christ, I am simply passing on what was already a gift freely given to me. Pass It on.
1 John 4:7,8
We continue this week in 1 John and for obvious reasons, his view on love is Inspiring and challenging.
When asked for the greatest command Jesus said to love God with all our heart, soul, mind and body. He then added that the second command was similar to the first, in fact it builds on it, to love your neighbor as yourself.
We may look a little sideways at that. God how can we do that with people that we just don't like or that don't like us? John gives us the answer in this verse from 1 John 4. It isn't us loving them it is God through us loving. The love I have comes not out of my own heart, but from God. This is how I know that he is in me; there is a love and care for others that didn't come from me.
If on the other hand I lack love for others then the question becomes is God real in my life. Now when we say "love" that's not to say I have warm fuzzy feelings for everyone, but I care about them, and for their need. We should love others enough to share Christ and his love with them. We need to pray for them.
When I love others in Christ, I am simply passing on what was already a gift freely given to me. Pass It on.
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