LOVE, LOVE, LOVE

1 John 4: 7 – 12


As we have discussed before, we may be the only Bible someone else may read. We have also come to know that if we feel drawn to go somewhere to minister too the folks there, well it could just be that God wants you to talk to the baggage handler who needs God in his life.
I had a similar experience in Rapid City S. Dakota back in 2000. Even though I was not walking well with God at the time, every day, I went to a convenience store near the hotel and talked with the guy behind the counter. He spoke of a hole in his soul, and an emptiness in his life. I spoke of a loving God who wanted to have a relationship with him. By the end of the week, the convenience store worker had been to a church and turned his life over to God welcoming Jesus into his heart.
(Even though I was apostate, God used me for His purposes)

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.

Love, love, love. That's what we build our lives on whether it is with God or with another person. They say that love makes the world go around. We hear it every week from the pulpit, and we read it in the Bible every day.
You'd think that we would get the idea and show that love all the time. Some times we get it and sometimes we don't. The one thing we know is that if we do show the love of God, things happen.
If we are genuine with showing our love, we attract others. That's because authentic attracts. People feel safe when they know that there is consistency and truth involved with how we speak and act.

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.

Then we have to ask our selves; if we are to show love for each other, how do we know what love is?

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.

Love requires that we give our all. Nothing else. If we can do this we show the love that God wants the world to know.