1 John 4:7-21
God’s Love and Ours
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.
13 This is how we know that we live in him and he in us: He has given us of his Spirit. 14 And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent his Son to be the Savior of the world. 15 If anyone acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God, God lives in them and they in God. 16 And so we know and rely on the love God has for us.
God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them. 17 This is how love is made complete among us so that we will have confidence on the day of judgment: In this world we are like Jesus. 18 There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love.
19 We love because he first loved us. 20 Whoever claims to love God yet hates a brother or sister is a liar. For whoever does not love their brother and sister, whom they have seen, cannot love God, whom they have not seen. 21 And he has given us this command: Anyone who loves God must also love their brother and sister.
John 1:1-14
Jesus Came and Dwelt With Us and is Full of Grace and Truth
1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was with God in the beginning. 3 Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. 4 In him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind. 5 The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.
6 There was a man sent from God whose name was John. 7 He came as a witness to testify concerning that light, so that through him all might believe.8 He himself was not the light; he came only as a witness to the light.
9 The true light that gives light to everyone was coming into the world. 10 He was in the world, and though the world was made through him, the world did not recognize him. 11 He came to that which was his own, but his own did not receive him. 12 Yet to all who did receive him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God— 13 children born not of natural descent, nor of human decision or a husband’s will, but born of God.
14 The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the one and only Son, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth.
There are certain virtues that are central to God...I believe that humbleness is close to LOVE...And Jesus, being Divine, taught us and lived His life in a humble way...I think it would be interesting in using the words of John's first epistle about God's LOVE and writing and maybe learning something about humility...
God’s humbleness and ours are different...Let us be humble when we are with one another, for humbleness comes from God...Everyone who is humble and tries to be humble is a little closer to God...Whoever is not humble and acts arrogant and proud is, of course, not humble and does is further away from Him, because God is humble...God showed us something about His humbleness in His Son...He sent his One and only Son into the world that we might live through Him...This is being humble: not that we are always humble before God, but that God is always humble before us and He sent His Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins, after we fell from His Grace in the garden of Eden...By God remaining humble before us, we also ought to be humble around each other...No one has ever seen God; but if we are humble around all of our neighbors, and always humble around one another, God will be closer to us and we shall learn from His humbleness...This is how we know that we live in Him and He in us: He has given us of His Spirit...And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent His Son to be the Savior of the world....Let us acknowledge that Jesus is the Son of God, and that God lives in Him and He in God...Let us learn from Their humbleness...God is humble...Whoever lives a proud life does not live with God...Humbleness is an attribute of God...This is how humbleness can be seen, in that Jesus is humble...In this world, if we are humble we share that attribute with Him...There is no arrogance in humbleness...And always being humble, drives out arrogance and pride...We know about be humble, because humility comes from God...Whoever claims to be humble and yet acts and shows arrogance is a little further away from God, than those who are always showing humility...For whoever is not humble around their brother and sister, whom they have seen, cannot be humble around God, whom they have not seen...And He wants us to be humble and to be humble around our brothers and sisters...
God sees who He is and sees it through a Spirit of humility...So humility helps one to see the way things are...Humility then helps us to see things the way they really are, the way reality is...When we believe that God has given us humility then we better see, that we are who we are, and He is who He is...Humility helps us see God through a different Light...This different Light of humility show us that He is the Creator and He is the One who created us...He is the Maker of this world...So humility shows us not only who we are, but who we are in relation to the universe and the One who actually created us and made us...Having humility rejoices in the fact that there is One who came to earth and dwelt with us and is full of grace and Truth...