Wednesday... Do we really know what it is?

There is a word that we hear everyday and say probably everyday. And it is said in so many different ways. But do we really know what it is?

1 John 4:10 (NIVR) says, "Here is what love is." So what is it? "It is not that we loved God. It is that he loved us and sent his Son to give his life to pay for our sins." Now that is love.

I was thinking today about Jesus sitting one day right beside His Father and the next day he was a baby in a manger. And He did that for me. Now that was love. I mean, He was the Son of God in heaven who had angels all around Him and then He woke up in a stable with animals all around Him. Now that was a major change. And He didn't do that because He did something wrong, He did that because He loved me and you.

Verses 11 & 12 says, "Dear friends, since God loved us this much, we should also love one another. No one has ever seen God. But if we love one another, God lives in us. His love is made complete in us."

Look at this, verse 16 (NLT) says, "God is love, all who live in love will live in God, and God lives in them." Then verses 18-19, "Such love has no fear, because perfect love expels all fear. If we are afraid, it is for fear of punishment, and this shows that we have not fully experienced his perfect love. We love each other because he loved us first."

Now this is important. Verses 20-21 says, "If someone says, 'I love God,' but hates a fellow believer, that person is a liar, for if we don't love people we can see, how can we love God, whom we can't see? And he has given us this command: Those who love God must also love their fellow believers."

Now that is what love is. Yes, yes! #todaysbeginning

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