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 4:12
I was so convicted by this today...we all struggle and strive to know God, to find the deep things of God, to find our gifts and figure out where to serve, what is God's Will for my life.
"love God, love others" that's it. How can we say we love God who we haven't seen and not love those whom we see everyday. Granted some people are really hard to love. There are people in my life that make my teeth hurt just being around them and I would imagine there are people who feel that way about me. That doesn't change the rules. In reality those people are in my life to change something in me, in you. They are to help us see how much we need a Savior and that He still has work to do in us. It is like sandpaper knocking off the rough edges.
You, dear children, are from God and have overcome them, because the One who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world. 1 John 4:4
Is the One in you greater? Is the one in you Him or is it just you...working, striving, trying to make it through another day. We can't love without God because the reality is our perception of love is jacked up, it is all about us. Love has nothing to do with you, it is totally and completely about that person in front of you.
If you are lonely and someone comes along to make you feel better do you thank God for that. Do you realize that it is how God loves you, through people. He has no other arms here to hug you with. Also remember He wants to use you to love others. You may be the hug that someone is praying for. The encouraging word that helps them hold on for another day. Don't pass up an opportunity.
LOVE...BE IT
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 how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. 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
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