God Lives In Us,

And His Love Is Perfected In Us.

Beloved, let us love one another, because love is from God; everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. Whoever does not love does not know God, for God is love. God’s love was revealed among us in this way: God sent his only Son into the world so that we might live through him. In this is love, not that we loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the atoning sacrifice for our sins. Beloved, since God loved us so much, we also ought to love one another. No one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God lives in us, and his love is perfected in us.

1 John 4:7-12

We are told to be imitators of God and to walk in love. Others see God in us when we show love to one another. Others judge us by our talk and our walk. Can they actually see Jesus in our lives? You can never tell when something you say may be just the right words to help convert someone to a belief in Jesus.

Why do you do what you do? Whose life are you affecting? Sometimes it’s not our target audience we impact the most. Sometimes it is someone totally unexpected.

Witnessing

is not just something a Christian says,

but what he is.

Our Daily Bread – April 17, 2009