10-8-26   THOUGHTS

The very definition of love is surrounded by God’s love for us in Christ Jesus. Our part is a responsive love for God by our loving our brother and our neighbor.  The book of 1John proves that it cannot BE...  if it isn’t this way.  1John 4:20   “If someone says, "I love God," and hates his brother, he is a liar; for the one who does not love his brother whom he has seen, cannot love God whom he has not seen.”   We want “God to abide in us!”

1John 4:7-12   Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. 8 The one who does not love does not know God, for God is love. 9  By this the love of God was manifested in us, that God has sent His only begotten Son into the world so that we might live through Him. 10 In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins. 11 Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. 12 No one has seen God at any time; if we love one another, God abides in us, and His love is perfected in us.

Our Prayer:
Father, we have been taught by You to love.  May we love fully, purely, unselfishly and powerfully.  Abide in us, O God, and perfect Your love in us.  We praise Your great name for the way things are.  In the name of our Savior,   Amen.