05/05/2025
THE LOVE OF GOD.
It's the love that moved God to give His Son for us, while we were still sinners, lost and broken. This love doesn't wait for us to earn it; it pours out freely, lavishly. It is an unconditional love.
In this love, we find our true identity as children of God. We're called to love as Jesus loved, without limits, without conditions and without expectations.
This love isn't passive; it's a love that takes action, that brings hope to the hopeless, life to the dead, and freedom to the captive. It's the love that compels us to share the Good News, to pray for others.
It is our defining characteristic as followers of Jesus. It's the love that sets us apart, that makes us shine in a dark world. Let's allow this love to overflow from our hearts, touching every life we meet.
We're empowered by the Holy Spirit to extend forgiveness, kindness, and compassion to everyone, regardless of their story.
Regardless of what others have done to us, your reasons for disliking them doesn’t matter, all that matters is the love of our Heavenly Father shared abroad in our hearts.
We have no excuse to hate anyone.
We are the expression of the love of God.
John 15v12-14KJV
This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you.
Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
You are my friends if you do what I command.
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.