Reading: 1st John 4: 7-21
Verse Twelve: “If we love each other, God lives in us and His love is made complete in us”.
How many times does the word ‘love’ appear in your Bible in our passage for today? In my NIV translation the word ‘love’ appears 26 times. It is certainly the theme of the passage!
As one reads this passage over a few times one gains the sense of the connectedness of the love between God and us and between each other. This idea of love being interwoven brings to mind Ecclesiastes 4: 9-12, where it speaks of how we support and encourage and help and strengthen one another. It concludes with these words in verse twelve, “a cord of three strands is not Quickly broken”. This passage common to wedding ceremonies implies that God’s love added to our love for one another gives great strength and durability to our relationships.
Love comes from God and is in God. If we know love, we know God. God’s love is shown in sending His Son as the atoning sacrifice for our sins. Since God loves us, we should love one another. Verse twelve in our passage today states, “If we love each other, God lives in us and His love is made complete in us”. There is a definite connection between the love of God and our love for one another.
Above all God is love. There is no better way to show the love of God that is in us than to love each other. May we love well today.
pastorjohnb 
April 23, 2018 at 12:31 pm
WE LIKE TO GRAVITATE , TOWARD THE LATTER PART OF THESE VERSES. BUT DONT FORGET THE FRIST PART, WE HAVE TO FRIST STAY CLOSE IN JESUS CHRIST, BY MAINTANING A HEALTHY , ONGOING RELATIONSHIP WITH JESUS CHRIST.
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WHEN THAT HAPPENS YOU WILL SEE , YOUR WIIL, COMING IN LINE WITH JESUS CHRIST,
AND YOUR WANTS,OR NEED, WILL BEGIN TO LOOK LIKE WHAT , JESUS CHRIST , WANTS TO DO IN OUR LIFES, AND AROUND US.
LOVING GOD IS THE MOST IMPORTANT COMMAND ..MARK 12 V29 -30
WE CANT BE SEPARATED FROM JESUS CHRIST LOVE, ROMANS 8 V 35-39
GODS LOVE FOR US IS BEYOND OUR UNDERSTANDING EPHESIANS 3V 18
GOD IS LOVE , 1JOHN 4 V16.
AS OUR NATION IS IN SO MANY WARS, GOING ON AND OUR TROOPS BEING KILLED AND HURT, I FAIL AT LOVING OUR ENMIES. I JUST HAVE NOT BEEN ABLE TO DO THAT..
I UNDERSTAND JESUS CHRIST IS MERCIFUL 1TIMOTHY CHAPTER 1 V2.
THANK GOD FOR THAT.
GOD IS LOVE, HIS MERCY BRIGHTENS, THIS DAY.
GOD IS LIGHT,
JESUS CHRIST , WHO STANDS IN HIS CHURCH WILL PRESERVE HIS PEOPLE..
MAY I SHOW GODS LOVE, IN THE THINGS I DO EACH DAY IN JESUS CHRIST NAME. 🙂