ABIDE IN LOVE
1 JOHN 3:16-24
This passage hits home to me today. There are so many people out there that are lonely and forsaken. I sometimes feel like the only person that cares about the people that I meet with. Sometimes they have no family, sometimes they are a widow or a senior that others just pass by, and sometimes its the successful person spruced up in a coat of insignificance and a tie that is choking out the hope they have for meaning. Whatever the situation, the world yearns for recognition, love, and acceptance.
I think at some point it's alright to be satisfied with what we have in life, however, I will never agree to the idea to be satisfied in who we are. It strengthens my belief to know that there are those of you out there that would lay down your life for someone else. It humbles me and makes me a better person to know that you are actively taking part in NOT a war on TERROR, but a WAR on perspective. We fight a fight to spread the message that we can ABIDE in GODs LOVE. We recognize it through that gentle Spirit that nudges us to say a kind word, to do a kind deed, to say a prayer, and to constantly become what God has created us to be. VICTORY!!!
1 John We know love by this, that he laid down his life for us--and we ought to lay down our lives for one another.
1 John How does God's love abide in anyone who has the world's goods and sees a brother or sister in need and yet refuses help?
1 John Little children, let us love, not in word or speech, but in truth and action.
1 John And by this we will know that we are from the truth and will reassure our hearts before him
1 John whenever our hearts condemn us; for God is greater than our hearts, and he knows everything.
1 John Beloved, if our hearts do not condemn us, we have boldness before God;
1 John and we receive from him whatever we ask, because we obey his commandments and do what pleases him.
1 John 3:23 And this is his commandment, that we should believe in the name of his Son Jesus Christ and love one another, just as he has commanded us.
1 John All who obey his commandments abide in him, and he abides in them. And by this we know that he abides in us, by the Spirit that he has given us.
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