Feb 20 2008
Do You Know Love? Do You Know 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.” (1 John 4:16, NIV)
With Valentine’s Day behind us, it seems like a good time to further reflect on what love truly is. In the last post we read the qualities of Love in 1 Corininthians 13. But did you know that GOD IS LOVE? I’m sure you have heard that before, but if you haven’t give it some thought. This is the only place that God is called something that is not an adjective. We know that “God is Just,” but that describes a quality about God. His actions are indeed Just. But in 1 John 4:16 we see that Love is being used as a noun. God is actually pure Love.
The next time that you feel unloved, understand and know that you can in fact be loved. When you know God, you in effect know love. Think about it…
If you know God, you know love.
For God DID so love the world…
1 John 4:19 says, “We love,
because He first loved us.”
So I say I do know God and I do know love.
in His name,
Lee
ps George, I also know your sister Angela.