Our God is Love

Let’s hear it from God’s Word.

“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. 

We know that we live in Him and He in us, because He has given us of His Spirit. And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent His Son to be the Savior of the world. If anyone acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God, God lives in him and He in God. 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 him. In this way, love is made complete among us so that we will have confidence on the day of judgement, because in this world we are like Him. There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love.

We love because He first loved us. If anyone says, “I love God,” yet hates his brother, he is a liar. For anyone who does not love his brother, whom he has seen, cannot love God, whom he has not seen. And He has given us this command: Whoever loves God must also love his brother.”

Lord, make me perfect in love. Because I fear. Finances, death, disease, my plans not going my way, babies coming too soon, babies not coming at all, what if this happens, what if I don’t want it, what if God is out for me, doesn’t really love me. God is love. 

Not that we loved God.

But that He loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. 

And so we know and we rely on the love God has for us. 

Lord, help me rely. 

Lord, help me know Your love. 

Lord, help me love.

Lord, be my love.