God repeats this theme throughout his word in so many beautiful ways. What I love about scripture is that it doesn't just tell us this truth once and hope we catch it the first time. It's worth pondering, discussing, debating, contemplating, and believing. How do you respond to a great love like that? Every time I open my Bible, I feel the unconditional love of God pouring off the pages and showing how much He loves me even though I'm pretty unlovable most days!Īnd yet, He demonstrates his own love for us in this: while we were still sinners, Christ died for us (Romans 5:8). Every year my niece is surrounded by the people that she loves, and she feels her Nana's unconditional love-and that's worth celebrating. She attributes this to the fact that her Nana throws the bestValentine's Day grandkids parties. And God gave us this command: Whoever loves God must also love his brother.I was talking to my teenage niece the other day and we were discussing how even though she's never had a "Valentine" date on Valentine's Day, the holiday has always been fun to celebrate and look forward to. So he cannot love God, whom he has never seen. He can see his brother, but he hates him. If someone says, “I love God,” but hates his brother, he is a liar. So love is not made perfect in the person who has fear. It is punishment that makes a person fear. Where God’s love is, there is no fear, because God’s perfect love takes away fear. We will be without fear, because in this world we are like him. If God’s love is made perfect in us, then we can be without fear on the day God judges us. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God lives in him.
And so we know the love that God has for us, and we trust that love. If someone says, “I believe that Jesus is the Son of God,” then God lives in him. We have seen that the Father sent his Son to be the Savior of the world. We know this because God gave us his Spirit.
We know that we live in God and God lives in us. If we love each other, God’s love has reached its goal. But if we love each other, God lives in us. That is how much God loved us, dear friends! So we also must love each other. God sent his Son to die in our place to take away our sins. True love is God’s love for us, not our love for God.
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