"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.
This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins.
Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.
No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us."
1 John 4:7-12
What is love, and how would we describe the concept of true love?
V.10 gives us the definition: "This is love: not that we loved God,
but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins."...God is Love (v.8) .
When I get aggravated and irritated because a brother or sister did something I didn't like, or didn't do something I expected them to, or I had disagreements with another person, or any one of thousands of possible issues arises, it does me well to remember these verses.
As 1 Cor.13 reads(paraphrased)- if I can prophesy, teach, preach, speak & interpret tongues,
have the gift of healing, but there is no love, the rest is as nothing, it means nothing.
I have missed the entire point of Jesus' mission & the essence of the Holy Scriptures.
My prayer for each of us : Lord teach us to love as you have loved us.
You always see through us, past our mistakes and the wreckage of our own flawed humanity,
past the hurts we have caused...you see us as we will be when we are finally completed in You.
The engine of our metamorphosis as we move forward from garbage to glory is Love.
Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.
This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins.
Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.
No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us."
1 John 4:7-12
What is love, and how would we describe the concept of true love?
V.10 gives us the definition: "This is love: not that we loved God,
but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins."...God is Love (v.8) .
When I get aggravated and irritated because a brother or sister did something I didn't like, or didn't do something I expected them to, or I had disagreements with another person, or any one of thousands of possible issues arises, it does me well to remember these verses.
As 1 Cor.13 reads(paraphrased)- if I can prophesy, teach, preach, speak & interpret tongues,
have the gift of healing, but there is no love, the rest is as nothing, it means nothing.
I have missed the entire point of Jesus' mission & the essence of the Holy Scriptures.
My prayer for each of us : Lord teach us to love as you have loved us.
You always see through us, past our mistakes and the wreckage of our own flawed humanity,
past the hurts we have caused...you see us as we will be when we are finally completed in You.
The engine of our metamorphosis as we move forward from garbage to glory is Love.
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