There’s an easy confidence that comes with knowing exactly what the mornings thought will focus on. That’s over. I’m choosing a new reading plan. It feels awkward even though it’s still the same familiar resource. Maybe that’s my learning curve – coping with the new and awkward parts of daily life. We’ll see.
1 John 4:7-12
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.
Ah love, I feel it so much better than I do it. Love is easier to take than to give. These are not new words to me but they present some challenges because there’s a disconnect between their truth and my reality.
Challenge #1: v7b – Truly believing…”EVERYONE [caps for emphasis] who loves has been born of God and knows God” is a relationship changer.
Challenge #2: Getting the sequence right. This is love…
1. “…not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins…”
2. “…we also ought to love one another.
3. “…if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us”
True love let’s us see God in one another and completes what he’s begun in us.
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