1John 4:9 In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent His only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through Him.
Love, no doubt one of the greatest qualities of our Father which art in heaven. In fact His word tells us that God Himself Is love. Love was so important to God that He made it the birth mark of every born again believer. Jesus said the world would know we are His by our love one to another.
In creation and in his Word, God offers us testimony of his love for us. But John says that God has done even more. He has made the ultimate sacrifice: “This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins”. If God has gone to the ultimate lengths of love for us, we can only respond by making tangible sacrifices of love for one another. After all this is what Jesus commands us to do, and since love is an action, their should be some evidence of our love one for another. It is Love which covers a multitude of sins.
We may express our love in words, but our words are empty if they are not accompanied by actions. We may have warm fuzzy feelings inside, but our feelings remain private pleasures if they do not translate into deeds. We are even called to love others when warm sentiments are absent. True Christian love is not a slave to such emotional fluctuations nor are they base on situation and circumstances. True Christ like love comes from the heart and is a condition of the soul.
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