Some days because I am so scattered, to soak in what the Spirit is saying, I have to write it down.
In reading the passage below this morning, I was overwhelmed by how much that I do not "get" the love of God...how often I take his character of love for granted or sentimentalize it to simply be "good feelings."
But in this passage I got a glimpse (a tantalizing glimpse!) of the love of God. The glimpse is like a trickle of water from the Hoover Dam. The God of the Universe has a storehouse of love to give away and for his people to understand... while we only grasp a trickle.
Oh, to understand and joy-fully rest in this love!
Oh, for the Spirit to manifest his love in his people!
Oh, for the Spirit to give everyone around us a glimpse of a cross-defined love that would burn us and heal us to our core!
Please may it be, Father.
Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God.
Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love.
In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his Son into the world, so that we might live through him.
In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought to love one another.
No one has ever seen God, if we love one another, God abides in us and his love is perfected in us.
1 John 4:7-12 (ESV)
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