Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love. 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. This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us.
1 John 4:7-12 New International Version (NIV)
THE GREAT COMMANDMENT – Matthew 22: 37-39″ Jesus said Love God with all your heart, soul, mind and strength— with all you are. And love your neighbor as yourself
This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers and sisters.
1 John 3:16 (NIV)
But God demonstrated his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners Christ died for us.
Romans 5:8 (NIV)
“To love is to will the good of another.” -Thomas Aquinas
Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.
1 John 4:7-8 (NIV)
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. This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us.
1 John 4:9-12 (NIV)
And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them.
1 John 4:16 (NIV)
Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails.
1 Corinthians 13: 4-8 (NIV)
____ is patient, ____ is kind. It does not envy, ____ does not boast, it is not proud. ____does not dishonor others, ____ is not self-seeking, ____ is not easily angered, ____ keeps no record of wrongs….
And hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit, who has been given to us.
Romans 5:5 (NIV)
“…I wish I could say that merciful and charitable thoughts just naturally flowed from me from then on. But they didn’t. If there’s one thing I’ve learned at 80 years of age, it’s that I can’t store up good feelings and behavior–but only draw them fresh from God each day.” -Corrie Ten Boom
Extraordinary things are possible in us when we receive the extraordinary love of God.
What’s He telling you to do today?