Love or Fear
1 John 4:7 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. 9 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. 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. 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. 13 We know that we live in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit.
We either operate out of fear or love.
1 John 4:18 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.
Love changes us, molds us, revives us, reforms us to see His truth and then we are able to see each other. In conditioning and falling short of understanding love, we live, operate in and have fear.If we look at what this is saying, we do not know God if we do not love. This is heavy duty! We cannot hate our neighbor and say we know God and if we aren't made perfect in love, and operate in fear, we do not know God. Because He is not fear, He is love. He who is Love says 'if we love one another, He lives in us and His love is made complete'. This is communion with Him and with others.
I pray that He continually opens our eyes to see this love, unspeakable love, in order that we may be healed and made whole, to love Him with all we are and to love one another with His love.
Remember the very first thing we learned as a child is, God is Love? Let us get back to having the faith of a child to believe it.
Video & Song
'God's Love Letter'
http://youtube.com/watch?v=ggGwDrxrC2k&feature=related
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