Tuesday, June 24, 2008

God is Love

"The one who does not love does not know God, for God is love." I John 4:8

God created mankind with the need to be loved. He planned to meet that need, but sin broke the fellowship, the channel through which you could comprehend His great love.

There are countless records of self-giving in love on behalf of another person. If human love has such power to transform lives, how much more does the love of God transform those who believe!

"The love of God has been poured out within our heart through the Holy Spirit Who was given to us." Romans 5:5

Poured out. The same word used in Acts for the outpouring of the Holy Spirit. Your heart was flooded with love at salvation, and today it remains full.

The ministry of the Holy Spirit in each Christian is to make known the love which God has for him. It is His ministry to help you say, I have come to know and believe the love which God has for me. I John 4:16

Is God's love transforming you day by day into the image of His Son?

By this the love of God was manifested in us, that God has sent His only begotten Son into the world so that we might live through Him. Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. No one has beheld God at any time; if we love one another, God abides in us, and His love is perfected in us. By this we know that we abide in Him and He in us, because He has given us of His Spirit. I John 4:9,11-13