Let Us Love
For this is the message you have heard from the beginning, that
we should love one another. We must not be like Cain who was from the evil one
and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his own deeds were
evil and his brother’s righteous. Do not be astonished, brothers and sisters,
that the world hates you. We know that we have passed from death to life
because we love one another. Whoever does not love abides in death. All who
hate a brother or sister are murderers, and you know that murderers do not have
eternal life abiding in them. We know love by this, that he laid down his life
for us – and we ought to lay down our lives for one another. How does God’s
love abide in anyone who has the world’s goods and sees a brother or sister in
need and yet refuses help?
Little children, let us love, not in word or speech, but in
truth and action.
1 John 3:11-18
The best way to escape from your daily cares and to forget
misery is to love. Love someone and be loved back. That is all any of us really
want. This is not self-love. It is love you give to someone else.
The gospel with its message of life-transforming love of Christ
provides the only answer. In fact, the love of God has been poured out in our
hearts by the Holy Spirit.
Have you experienced the infilling of God’s love? Only when you
trust Jesus as Savior will the Holy Spirit of love begin to flow in and through
you.
God pours His love into our hearts
to flow out to others.
Our Daily Bread –