1 John 4:10, 16 NIV
10 This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. 16 And so we know and rely on the love God has for us.
God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them.
Romans 5:5 NIV
And hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit, who has been given to us.
“It is not our love that is primary but God’s, free, uncaused and spontaneous, and all our love is but a reflection of his and a response to it. The coming of Christ is, therefore, a concrete, historical revelation of God’s love, for love (agapē) is self-sacrifice, the seeking of another’s positive good at one’s own cost, and a greater self-giving than God’s gift of his Son there has never been, nor could be.” (John Stott, The Letters of John: An Introduction and Commentary)
As God’s beloved, we get to be loved in the fullest sense, because of what Jesus Christ has done in coming after us and saving us. God is love! And we can know and rely on this infinite love as God has poured his love into our hearts through the Holy Spirit.
Prayer: Father, I stand in awe of how wide and long and high and deep is your love for me. It truly is so great. Help me to put aside whatever blocks your love from being poured into me to overflowing. In Jesus’ name, amen.
Let’s sing “Love So High” by Matt Redman over the areas where we want to know and rely more on Christ’s love (click here).
– CHH
