1 John 4:8
God is LOVE
8 Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.
Matthew 6:5-15
The LORD's Prayer
5 “And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward in full. 6 But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father, who is unseen. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you. 7 And when you pray, do not keep on babbling like pagans, for they think they will be heard because of their many words. 8 Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask him.
9 “This, then, is how you should pray:
“‘Our Father in heaven,
hallowed be your name,
10 your kingdom come,
your will be done,
on earth as it is in heaven.
11 Give us today our daily bread.
12 And forgive us our debts,
as we also have forgiven our debtors.
13 And lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from the evil one.’
14 For if you forgive other people when they sin against you, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. 15 But if you do not forgive others their sins, your Father will not forgive your sins.
As one reads the daily headlines it seems that the world is not together...It seems that we are separate from many people who walk the earth...As we read about the problems in the headlines, we do not see a world of togetherness...
Love brings family and friends together...God is LOVE...And LOVE brings people together...And when we pray we might try to bring this earthly world together with the Kingdom of Heaven...Let us pray that God’s will gets done on earth as it does in heaven, and that all of are drawn together by His LOVE...When God's will gets done on earth as it does in heaven, then the world will better come together...
And in the LORD's Prayer, Jesus reminds us to forgive others...For if you forgive other people when they sin against you, your heavenly Father will also forgive you...But if you do not forgive other people of their sins, your Father will not forgive your sins...It is very important to be a forgiving person...Pray that you maybe a forgiving person, and pray that you are forgiven by our Father...Forgiveness is a sign of love...
LOVE brings harmony to the world...A world that is completely together is a world filled with LOVE...