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It is written:
1 John 3:10-11-In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins. 11 Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.
There is a redeeming power in love that cannot be seen in anything else.
“I take literally the statement in the Gospel of John that God loves the world. I believe that the world was created and approved by love, that it subsists, coheres, and endures by love, and that, insofar as it is redeemable, it can be redeemed only by love. I believe that divine love, incarnate and indwelling in the world, summons the world always toward wholeness, which ultimately is reconciliation and atonement with God.” (Wendell Berry, The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry, 146 (Kindle Edition); Berkeley, CA; COUNTERPOINT)
Jesus is our Example.
1 John 2:2-6-And He Himself is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the whole world. 3 Now by this we know that we know Him, if we keep His commandments. 4 He who says, “I know Him,” and does not keep His commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him. 5 But whoever keeps His word, truly the love of God is perfected in him. By this we know that we are in Him. 6 He who says he abides in Him ought himself also to walk just as He walked.
God knows that we will sin and fall short at times (1 John 1:7-2:2). Yet He calls us to grow and to keep walking in Jesus’ footsteps.
The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Spirit, be with you all. Amen.
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