L-O-V-E

I believe and I think anybody would agree.. We will never truly know the power of God's love for us! This morning God lead me to 1 John. I turned right to chapter 4 and started reading. I love these chapters and books of the bible where the word is so good (and there's a lot of those ;)..) that you don't want to stop reading so you just read the whole chapter or the whole book for that matter. When I was reading I came upon verse 4 and had to stop. "Ye are of GOD, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is HE that is IN you, than he that is in the world." 1 John 4:4. As Bro Sam would say, If that doesn't light your fire your wood must be wet. :) We worry about the stupid things in the world when they are itty bitty compared to who is living inside us (if you are a born again Christian of course). I stopped reading for a minute and wrote down that verse then I started reading again. That was too good to not see what comes next. "Beloved, let us love one another: for love is God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God." This verse is saying if you have never accepted God's love for you then you have never experienced God's love. HE IS LOVE so if you don't know Him you don't know love. It's that simple. It doesn't stop there... His love, God's love is the reason we can have everlasting life! He loved us so much that He sent HIS ONLY Son to die for us! I like verse 10, it says "Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins." Propitiation means an atoning sacrifice. It's not about us or what WE'VE done it's about what GOD has done. Love isn't because we love God but because He loves us! And because He loves us He commands us to love others, starting in verse 11. "Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another." Let's show others His love. It would be a shame for a person to miss out on the love of God because we didn't show it to them. Who knows for some people the only true love (God's love) they see will be through us!