On the subject of love from yesterday, I wanted to share my favorite passage of scripture:
"We know how much God loves us, and we have put our trust in his love.
God is love, and all who live in love live in God, and God lives in them. And as we live in God, our love grows more perfect. So we will not be afraid on the day of judgment, but we can face him with confidence because we live like Jesus here in this world.
Such love has no fear, because perfect love expels all fear. If we are afraid, it is for fear of punishment, and this shows that we have not fully experienced his perfect love. We love each other because he loved us first.
If someone says, “I love God,” but hates a Christian brother or sister, that person is a liar; for if we don’t love people we can see, how can we love God, whom we cannot see? And he has given us this command: Those who love God must also love their Christian brothers and sisters."
God is love, and all who live in love live in God, and God lives in them. And as we live in God, our love grows more perfect. So we will not be afraid on the day of judgment, but we can face him with confidence because we live like Jesus here in this world.
Such love has no fear, because perfect love expels all fear. If we are afraid, it is for fear of punishment, and this shows that we have not fully experienced his perfect love. We love each other because he loved us first.
If someone says, “I love God,” but hates a Christian brother or sister, that person is a liar; for if we don’t love people we can see, how can we love God, whom we cannot see? And he has given us this command: Those who love God must also love their Christian brothers and sisters."
- 1 John 4:16-21 (NLT)
As a woman that struggles with fear, this passage has always been uplifting. To think that His perfect love drives out, expels, banishes fear and any reason to fear!! And that we can truly trust in His love as He fills us with that perfect love and confident hope in Jesus. But we cannot, must not forget the call to show our love for Him by loving His creation. So, I challenge you to accept the perfect love of God, allow Him to change you by and through that love, and go out and share that love with His beloved creation!
P.S. Tomorrow I leave with our youth group for a youth based conference in Lubbock, TX. I am very excited to see what God has planned for all of us as we share the weekend with him. But, as I'll be pretty busy, I probably won't be posting until Sunday evening or Monday. I do plan on writing, I just won't be able to post right away.
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