God’s love is very special. It reads in “John 15:17: “Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God.” Christians know how much God loves them. He sent Jesus to die on the cross to save us from our sin. It reads in “Romans 5:8: “But God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.” We are no longer afraid that God will punish us for our sins. That is how much God loves us. Because of that, true Christians love other people. If they hate other people, it shows that they do not really know about God’s love. It reads in “1 John 4:8: “Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.” Love an intense feeling of deep affection for each other. It reads in “1 John 4:16: “So we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us.” Love is not onesided. Profound love God has for humanity, demonstrated through the sacrifice of Jesus Christ. It reads in “John 3:16: “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.”

It reads in 1 John 4:7-21 Easy: My friends, we should all love each other. It is God who makes us able to love other people. Everyone who loves other people has become a child of God. That person knows God. Anyone who does not love other people does not know God. We know this because God’s own nature is love. This is how God showed that he loves us: He sent his only Son to come and live in the world. He did that so that we could have true life with God because of his Son. This shows what love is: It is not that we have loved God, but that he loved us. He loved us so much that he sent his Son to save us from sin. He sent Jesus to die as a sacrifice, to take the punishment for our sins. My friends, this shows how much God has loved us. So we should also love one another. Nobody has ever seen God. But, if we love each other, it shows that God lives in us. As a result, we can love people completely, in the same way that God loves us. God has given us his Holy Spirit to live in us. Because of this, we know that we live together with God. And we know that he lives with us. God the Father sent his Son to come into the world. God sent him to save the people of the world from their sins. We apostles have seen that this is true. So now we are telling people about it. If anyone says clearly that Jesus is the Son of God, God lives in that person. And that person lives together with God. So we know the kind of love that God has for us. We believe that God has put that love in us. God’s nature is love. So, if someone continues to love other people, he is living together with God. And God lives in him. That is how we are able to love other people completely. Then, we will not be afraid on the day when God will judge all people. We can be sure that God will not punish us. We know this because we have lived in this world in the way that Jesus lived. If we really love God, we will not be afraid of him. We cannot love him completely and also be afraid. We would only be afraid of God if we thought that he would punish us. So, if someone is afraid that God will punish them, it shows that they do not completely know God’s love. We are able to love God and other people because God loved us first. Someone may say, ‘I love God.’ But if he says that and he hates another Christian, he is telling a lie. He sees other believers but he does not love them. So he surely cannot love God that he has not seen. This is the command that God has given us. He has told us that anyone who loves him should love other Christians too.
Dear Blessed Lord Jesus, praise You for the wonderful writings of the apostle John, the awesome truths that they contain, and the many lessons that I can learn. I believe that in the power of Your Holy Spirit, I may walk in spirit and rightness, grow in grace and wisdom. I believe that in the power of Your Holy Spirit, I would die to self and so live for Jesus Christ that I am able to say with Paul: “It is not I that live, but Christ that lives in me,” I have been crucified with Christ, and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me. Galatians 2:20 NIV: so that I may obey Your command to love my brothers and sisters as Christ loved the Church. I love You, thank You, praise You and give You all the honor and glory in Your Precious Name Jesus Amen.