Beloved,
let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born
of God, and knoweth God. He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love (1
John 4:7-8).
Love is the
totality of God’s nature. This is beyond someone having love in his heart or
the ability to love; it means that He’s love personified. God is love! And
because He’s love, He doesn’t have the capacity to hate; it’s not possible for
God to hate. Hate is of the darkness. God is light, and in Him, there’s no darkness
at all (1 John 1:5). The Bible says, “Every good gift and every perfect gift is
from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no
variableness, neither shadow of turning” (James 1:17).
Someone may
reference Romans 9:13 and ask, But didn’t God say, “...Jacob have I loved, but
Esau have I hated?” (Read Malachi 1:2-3). This is where understanding the place
of poetry and prophecy, and the dichotomy of expression in the Scriptures come
in. The language of the Prophets in the Old Testament shouldn’t always be
interpreted at face value; you’d have to look through the words of other
Prophets to interpret them. You’d also have to judge their communication in
line with the revelation of God that we see in the New Testament, in the person
of Jesus.
God is
love. When the Holy Spirit reveals God to you and you get to know Him, His love
will dominate you. This is because the more you love Him, the more like Him you
become. As you meditate on His love for you, you’ll find yourself demonstrating
that same love in your life.
You’re a
product of love. Let the love of God in your spirit dominate you. It’s
something you do. The Bible says for us not to love only in words, but in deeds
as well (1 John 3:18). Be like God whose essence is love, because as He is, so
are you in this world.
PRAYER: The
love of God is expressed through me today; my communication, actions, and all
that emanate from me are expressions of the love-nature of Christ that’s in my
spirit. I’m the embodiment and expression of the love of Christ. Hallelujah!
Further
Study: John 15:13 Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his
life for his friends.
John 17:23
I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the
world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved
me.
1 John 4:16
And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and
he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.
1-YEAR
BIBLE READING PLAN: 1 Timothy 1:1-20, Jeremiah 5-6
2-YEAR BIBLEREADING
2-YEAR BIBLE
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