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.
John 16:25-33
Jesus Knows All Things
25 “Though I have been speaking figuratively, a time is coming when I will no longer use this kind of language but will tell you plainly about my Father. 26 In that day you will ask in my name. I am not saying that I will ask the Father on your behalf. 27 No, the Father himself loves you because you have loved me and have believed that I came from God. 28 I came from the Father and entered the world; now I am leaving the world and going back to the Father.”
29 Then Jesus’ disciples said, “Now you are speaking clearly and without figures of speech. 30 Now we can see that you know all things and that you do not even need to have anyone ask you questions. This makes us believe that you came from God.”
31 “Do you now believe?” Jesus replied. 32 “A time is coming and in fact has come when you will be scattered, each to your own home. You will leave me all alone. Yet I am not alone, for my Father is with me.
33 “I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.”
The Disciples were with Jesus for three years...Then after the three years they realized that Jesus knew all things...And He did not deny this fact of knowing all things...
We know and are told that Jesus is the Word and the Word was with God in the very beginning, and the Word was God...He was with God in the beginning...So Jesus being with God from the very beginning, He knows about all things....After all, through Jesus all things have been made...So one can look around and see these things that were not made by man, such as trees, the grass, the oceans, the sky, the sun, the moon and all the things of life of nature, and have an idea of what He made...The proof of these things around us, is proof that a miracle of creation has been at work...Without Him nothing and none of these things of nature and of the earth were made that have been made...In Him is life, and the life that we know as we grow older is a part of what we know...He is the Light of all mankind...The Light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it...The Word became flesh and made His dwelling among us...We have seen His glory, the glory of the One and Only Son, the One who came from the Father, full of grace and truth...The One who knows all things...
C. S. Lewis once said, “If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world.”...
If I could relate that to Jesus I would say that He had little or no desires in this Lewis-like sense...I would say that He had little or no doubts, along these same lines...He is from Another World...He was sent by God and is from heaven...God is Complete and that would make His Son Complete...He would fear nothing, because He knows His Father, and know that His Father is LOVE...Jesus knows that His Father is in control and in charge of things...If there is something He fears or needs to know about, the Son can always ask the Father and have this Complete Understanding that God has always had...If one had this type of knowledge, knowing this would make one completely independent of others except the Father...And by believing in God, I could see why Jesus would have little or no desires and doubts that Lewis wrote about...
So if Someone is totally understanding of all things, They would be totally and completely independent of things, except God...They would have no fears, because they see the world as it is, and as it was made through them, and they must realized that True LOVE is the number One Thing in life and in Perfect LOVE there is no fear...We often fear what we do not know...But Jesus knows all things...So Jesus' doubts and desires were de minimus, because I know of nothing that He was lacking and that He did not know (other than the time of His future and Second Advent, which only the Father knows)...
I have often have read where we as men and women are shaped and formed by two main things...One is by who raised us and how they raised us, especially, in our early years...The other factor is the experiences of the world and how the experiences in our lives help shape us and form and transform us into who we are...And these two factors help us become who we are...These two things, in a great way, help determine what we become and are a great part of us and our continued history throughout our lives...So just imagine if you are with God from the very beginning, and that the world cannot shape You, because You made the world and the world was made through You...So, imagine You are formed by God and His experiences, and the world did not shape your life at all, because You made the world...Your desires, Your thoughts, Your ideas, the Way You speak would be quite different from ours...You would be a little bit different, if not a lot different -and in a very good Way...