1 John 4:7-21
God's LOVE and Our 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.
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.
Hebrews 13:8
Jesus is the Same Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow
8 Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.
Matthew 24:35
Jesus' Words Will Never Pass Away
35 Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away.
God is LOVE...There is Great Power in God...And there is Great Power in LOVE...Since God is LOVE, His Son is also LOVE...We know how to love, because God has taught us love and instilled in us love...We love because God first LOVED us...
Why wouldn’t one believe in One who teaches all about LOVE to us...One who teaches about hope and love and mercy and forgiveness would seem like the right things to believe in...And if we believe in love, hope, mercy, and forgiveness I think then that gives us a foundation for faith...And this foundation of faith helps us believe that the One who teaches these things was the One to come and is our Messiah...
Jesus teaches these things of the human heart, and touches our hearts with truth and grace..So I believe in love...Just as I believe in hope...I believe in mercy, and I believe in forgiveness...I believe these things do not change...God is LOVE...Love will never pass away...And I believe that love, hope, mercy, and forgiveness will never pass...They are the same yesterday, today, and tomorrow...That is why His words will never pass...