God’s Love for Us

“In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins. Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.” 1 John 4:10-11

Have you ever heard someone say, “I learned to pray at my mother’s knee”? That may or may not have been your experience. But no matter, surely you are learning every day of the vast access, responsibility, variety of expression and opportunity there are in prayer and meditation.

Paul is so helpful as we pray with him: “The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit, be with you all.”
2 Corinthians 13:14

The divine mystery of the Trinity - one God, three Persons - is demonstrated in this short statement of petition, of benediction, of blessing, grace, love, fellowship. All of these are ours as believers. These are the blessings, the privileges which are ours as the children of God. And the mystery: though each Person of the Godhead provides grace, love, and fellowship, it is the expression of one God.

The love of God is expressed in the pardon of our sins. We are accepted in the Beloved (Jesus) and judged to be righteous. Praise God!...Hallelujah!...Amen!