Comment: If we seek to love God by any human
measure, we are off to a bad start! Well, let me explain; does God love the
world He created, with a faulty love, or is it a perfect love? Would we desire the
love of God to be conditional, or would we rather for it to be unconditional?
Of course! Your answers to these questions ought to be yes. Why? God is LOVE; 1
John 4:17-19 explains His love and explains our response. Having received
Christ by personal faith, God’s love is being made perfect in us. Why? That we
may have boldness in the day of judgment. Why again? Because as He is, so are
we to be in this world. Again why? Perfected love, will cast out ‘all’ fear,
because fear causes torment. Those who fear are not yet made perfect in God’s
love. Understanding that He “first” loved us is the #1 prerequisite to be
perfected in the love of God.
Devotional: Romans 5:8 –
But God demonstrates (that is; to show by proof) His “own” love toward us, in
that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. The suffering, death and
resurrection of Jesus Christ, God’s only begotten Son; demonstrates (proves)
God’s love to the world. Those who willingly reject this proof, will not see
the kingdom of God. God’s kingdom is a kingdom of His Love. It is not a kingdom
of human love.
“Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is
born again (literally, born from above), he
cannot SEE the kingdom of God. John 3:3; as Jesus spoke to Nicodemus, He
also speaks today, Romans 5:8 – But God demonstrates (that is; to show by
proof) His “own” love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ
died for us. This is not spiritualizing scripture in anyway, it is literal, we
either walk in the light of this truth or we walk in the darkness of the lie of
the devil.
This light has come into the world because Jesus came,
died for the sins of the world and rose again. He did this for the world, but
especially for those who have or will believe in Him. Everyone who continues to
do evil hates, the hate the light of God’s love, because the love of God
exposes the evil, which they willingly do. But those who come to the truth
comes to the light, that his deeds may be clearly observed because their deeds
are done in the love of God.
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