Devotionals By Pastor Glen: CONFIRMING YOUR LOVE OF GOD

Posted 2/14/2013

7 ¶ My beloved friends, let us continue to love each other since love comes from God. Everyone who loves is born of God and experiences a relationship with God.
8 The person who refuses to love doesn’t know the first thing about God, because God is love—so you can’t know him if you don’t love.
9 This is how God showed his love for us: God sent his only Son into the world so we might live through him.
10 This is the kind of love we are talking about—not that we once upon a time loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as a sacrifice to clear away our sins and the damage they’ve done to our relationship with God.
11 My dear, dear friends, if God loved us like this, we certainly ought to love each other.
12 No one has seen God, ever. But if we love one another, God dwells deeply within us, and his love becomes complete in us—perfect love!
13 This is how we know we’re living steadily and deeply in him, and he in us: He’s given us life from his life, from his very own Spirit.

How does the world know you love God? The scriptures today give a solid answer to that question. Here are the proponents of true love.

1.Love is a continuous flow of loving each other. No stop and go actions.
2.Love is an outflow of valid relationship with God.
3.Love begins on Gods initiative; God loved us first and sent His Son to be a sacrifice for our sin. It is not His will that any should perish so He provided a way for our sins to be forgiven and relationship restored.
4. As we love others God love completes the cycle and is perfected in us.
5.We know we live because His love has given us life with a capital “L” that overflows in us through His Spirit. Love rules in our life. Dear Jesus let your love show in us by our love of others. Amen