Thursday, October 4, 2012
Most of the time, love doesn't need words.
Sometimes, I'm lonely. I wish I was sharing life with someone. I wish that I'd have that special person to call and tell about the stupid small things in my day that I absolutely love. Sometimes, I hope that he'll come right now, so we can begin to share life together. Then I remember...I'm not alone.
The truest form of love does not come from another person. The truest form of love is Jesus Christ. He came to this earth to show us what unconditional love looks like. He made a way for us to live with him for eternity. The love that he showed us on that cross is the most tangible love that I can possibly imagine. The love story of Jesus is the ultimate love story. He knew everything about us. He waited and worked and loved those people around him. He knew that his Father was God. He only follows His words. That love that Jesus has for us, is something we forget to often. Remind yourself that you are walking in love every single day.
God used words to show us his love in Scripture. But we live in that same love every day...and it doesn't need words.
"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 on 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 judgment, 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.
1 John 4:9-19
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