"For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlastng life."
The Christian faith is based on love. It is based on the love that God has for us, and the love that we should have for Him and for each other. I want to share about this love that God has for us and that we should have for each other. ,God loves us. John 3:16 reveals to us that God loves us. I believe that God loves me and that He loves you based on that text, and others throughout the Bible. 1John 4:10 "Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us, and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins." ("Propitiation" means that Christ was the atoning sacrifice that was made for us in order for us to b be saved.) You need to come to the point in your life, if you haven't already, that God loves you. He loved you enough to send His Son to die on the cross in order for you to be saved. Just say it, and believe it: "God loves me." We should love God. 1 John 4:19 "We love Him (God) because He first loved us..." We need to ask ourselves if we really love God? Does our life reveal that we love God? Do we talk to Him? We call this prayer. One of the signs that people have fallen out with each other is that they do not speak to each other. Well, do you speak to God, or have you fallen out with Him? Please understand that whether you speak to Him or not, God loves you, but He would certainly like to hear from you. Years ago (many years ago) when I was in Boot Camp in San Diego, Mama wrote me that if she did not hear from me soon, she was going to call the Commanding Officer and check on me. Needless to say I got a letter in the mail to her immediately. (My Mama would have done it.) Perhaps God wants to hear from you. Just go to Him in prayer. Talk to Him! Share your heart with Him! Love Him! He loves you! We should love each other. 1John 4:11 "Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another." We are not all easy to love. (duh) Some folks are downright easy to love, and some folks are downright difficult to love. But the Bible does not take these facts into account. It just says that we are to love each other. I am certainly not going to be self righteous at this point. I can think of some people at this point and have positive thoughts and feelings about them. I can think of some other people and have to pray to have positive thoughts and feelings about them. But the Bible commands that I love all of them. It is easy to say that we love everybody, but it is actually difficult to do. But we should make the effort to love people, because God loves all of us'. Bro. Joe
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