1 John 4:7-21
God is LOVE and Love Comes from God
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 14:6-7
Jesus is Truth, the Way, and is Life
6 Jesus answered, "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. 7 If you really know me, you will know my Father as well. From now on, you do know him and have seen him."
Acts 4:12
Salvation is Found in Only Jesus
12 Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to mankind by which we must be saved.
Matthew 22:36-40
The Two Greatest Commandments
36 “Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?”
37 Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ 38 This is the first and greatest commandment.39 And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ 40 All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.”
1 Corinthians 13:1-13
Love
1 If I speak in the tongues of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. 3 If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing.
4 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5 It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6 Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7 It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
8 Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away.9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10 but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears. 11 When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me. 12 For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror;then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.
13 And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.
Truth and love are very important to us in our lives...Life would be very unfortunate without Truth and Love...
God is very important in the meaning in life...God is the Ultimate Meaning in Life...Finding love in one's life may be the best experience in one's life...St. Paul tells us that the three greatest attributes in life are faith, hope, and love...And the greatest of these is love...The poets over the centuries have wrote to us about the Truth found in LOVE, and also that there is LOVE found in the Truth...There is this Divine Connection to the salvation of man and to LOVE...There is only salvation found in one Man...So there is True Salvation found in LOVE...
St. John in his first epistle summed up Truth and LOVE and Salvation this Way...God is LOVE...To love and be loved is very important to one's life...Jesus said that He is the Truth, and a Specific Way of Life...He is the way to God Himself...Not only do we know that God is LOVE, but love comes from God...Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows about Him...When we love someone we somehow get to know God more...This is because God is LOVE...God showed his LOVE for us by sending His One and only Son into this world that we might live through Him...This is LOVE: not that we loved God, but that He LOVED us and He sent His Son as an atoning sacrifice for us and for our sins...And because He our atoning sacrifice, He is our salvation...Since God so LOVES, 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...This is how we know that we live in Him and He in us: He has given us of His Holy Spirit...And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent His Son to be the Savior of the world...(St. John was an eyewitness and Disciple to Jesus)...If anyone acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God, then God lives in them and they in God...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...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...There is no fear in LOVE...But Perfect LOVE can drive out fear, because fear has to do with punishment...The one who fears is not made perfect in love...We know how to love because God first loved us...Whoever claims to love God yet hates a brother or sister is a liar...For whoever does not love their brother and sister or neighbor, whom they have seen, cannot love God, whom they have not seen...And Jesus has given us this command: Anyone who loves God must also love their brother and sister and neighbor...