John 4:7-12
God is LOVE
7 Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. 8 Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love. 9 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. 10 This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. 11 Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. 12 No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us.
John the Disciple is sometimes called the Disciple of Love...When the Disciple John wrote that love comes from God and that God is LOVE, he understood the importance of LOVE and kindness in our world...A world without LOVE is not in harmony and is a world in trouble...
John Wesley said, “Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as ever you can.”...
“The great preacher and founder of the Methodist movement, John Wesley (1703-1791), was once approached by a man who came to him in the grip of unbelief..."All is dark; my thoughts are lost," the man said to Wesley, "but I hear that you preach to a great number of people every night and morning...Pray, what would you do with them?...Whither would you lead them?...What religion do you preach?...What is it good for?"...Wesley gave this answer to those questions:
"You ask, what would I do with them?...I would make them virtuous and happy, easy in themselves, and useful to others...Whither would I lead them?...To heaven, to God the judge, the LOVER of all, and to Jesus the Mediator of the New Covenant...What religion do I preach?...The religion of LOVE...The law of kindness brought to Light by the gospel...What is this good for?...To make all who receive it enjoy God and themselves, to make them like God, lovers of all, contented in their lives, and crying out at their death, in calm assurance, "O grave where is thy victory!...Thanks be to God, who giveth me victory, through my LORD Jesus Christ."...