Love.... A little word of four letters. n english one word to express all. In Afrikaans one word to express all.... What does love mean? Why is God refering to Himself as: God is love. 1 John 4:8 and 1 John 4:16.... 1 John a very good book to read. Let us read this and we highlight a few points....1 John 4 :6 to 21.... 15 verses about love and God and His will.
6. We are of God: he that knoweth God heareth us; he that is not of God heareth not us. Hereby know we the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error. 1Jn 4:7 Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God. 1Jn 4:8 He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. 1Jn 4:9 In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him. 1Jn 4:10 Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. 1Jn 4:11 Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another. 1Jn 4:12 No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us. 1Jn 4:13 Hereby know we that we dwell in him, and he in us, because he hath given us of his Spirit. 1Jn 4:14 And we have seen and do testify that the Father sent the Son to be the Saviour of the world. 1Jn 4:15 Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwelleth in him, and he in God. 1Jn 4:16 And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him. 1Jn 4:17 Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world. 1Jn 4:18 There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love. 1Jn 4:19 We love him, because he first loved us. 1Jn 4:20 If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen? 1Jn 4:21 And this commandment have we from him, That he who loveth God love his brother also.
Please read this in time and see what God is saying here. God says that those that love as HE INTEND THEM TO LOVE IS AS HE IS... How is that? How is God in this world? AS GOD IS SO ARE THESE PEOPLE IN THIS WORLD... PERFECT LOVE!!!! WOW!!! I fall short, but I have to give God credit I love way more than I used too! And some people I really do love as much as I love myself, also something I NEVER could for 38 years!
Thank You Lord that you LOVED ME, and that I can learn to love, even those that are mine enemy. I am humbled by Your Example, Jesus You showed me HOW! Please help me to BE AS YOU ARE! AMEN!