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God Is Love

1 John 4:7-13, NIV
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 We know that we live in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit.


Many people live with wounds and resentment in their hearts. Most of their wounds have resulted from a lack of love. Only the true love of God has the power to heal all wounds.

1. God is love (1Jn 4:8).
God is the source of love. God loves us with boundless mercy, with infinite love. Only the love of God can solve all problems and heal all wounds. When we obey God?셲 Word, we will remain in His love (Jn 15:10). Furthermore, if we love God with all our heart and with all our soul and with all our mind (Mt 22:37), God?셲 grace and abundant blessings will be given to us (Mt 6:33). Our lifetime purpose should be to love God?봳he source of love.

2. God?셲 love toward us (1Jn 4:10).
God loved us first while we were still sinners (1Jn 4:19). Despite the fact that we were sinful, unrighteous, hideous sinners who were supposed to be abandoned, God loved us. Through Jesus, God has shown us His unconditional agape love (1Jn 4:9; Jn 3:16). Jesus??sacrificial love and death on the Cross saved entire humanity from sin and death. The immeasurable grace of Jesus has brought dreams and hope to all humankind. We must give thanks and praise for such wonderful love that cannot be paid back.
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3. Practice love (1Jn 4:11).
We must practice loving others, since we are indebted to Jesus for His love. In obedience to His commandment, we must love our neighbors as ourselves (Mt 22:39). Anyone who does not love his brother, whom he has seen, cannot love God, whom he has not seen (1Jn 4:20-21). Jesus gave all of us a new commandment to love one another (Jn 13:34-35). We must obey the commandment, and practice love. We should care for poor and underprivileged neighbors, forgive them, sympathize with them, and share what we have with them (1Co 13:4-7). When we practice love, fear and the forces of darkness disappear (1Jn 3:18). All our wounds will be healed when we become an apostle of love.

4. The help of the Holy Spirit (1Jn 4:13).
When we believe in Jesus, the Holy Spirit remains in us and provides guidance to us, so that we may practice love according to God?셲 will (1Jn 4:24). The Spirit is the Counselor who helps us. When we are weak and in despair, not knowing what we ought to pray for, the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groans that words cannot express (Ro 8:26) and sets us free from all bondage of sin and despair (Ro 8:1-2). The Spirit gives us power and enables us to preach the Gospel to the ends of the earth (1Jn 5:6; Ac 1:8). With the help of the Holy Spirit, we must practice the love of Jesus and become a witness of the Gospel who delivers the love of Jesus to the whole world.

We must become Christians who shine an even brighter light of love to the world as it becomes darker. I hope that all of you will become God?셲 beautiful children who make the world brighter with the light of hope and the light of forgiveness.