FAITH CAPSULE: Loving God is not just of emotion but get motion to doing good for the glory of God.
1 John 3
The command of God from the beginning speaks to all loving one another.
Deuteronomy 6:5 records, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength.”
Luke 10:27 states “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength, and with all your mind,’ and ‘your neighbor as yourself.”
Loving one another is evidence of loving God.
The message for all since the beginning is to love one another.
1 John 3:11-12 states, “For this is the message that you heard from the beginning, that we should love one another, not as Cain who was of the wicked one and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his works were evil and his brother’s righteous.”
The majority always claim love for God when there is no love for one another.
An acclaimed believer that does not practice righteousness by not loving others as commanded by God is a liar.
1 John 3:10 buttresses, “In this the children of God and the children of the devil are manifest: Whoever does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor is he who does not love his brother.”
Do you have a love for God by living by His word?
The love of God is to love unconditionally, sacrificially, and personally.
Personally: Christ should be the character of the believer that claims to love.
1John4:20-21, “If someone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen? And this commandment we have from Him: that he who loves God must love his brother also.”
Jesus demonstrates unconditional love for all to learn and to live life for His glory.
With is the love for all?
He died for all while we were sinners. (Romans 5:8)
Sacrificially, the demonstration of love should be of the love of God, not just talking about love.
1 John 3:16-18, “By this we know love because He laid down His life for us. And we also ought to lay down our lives for the brethren. But whoever has this world’s goods, and sees his brother in need, and shuts up his heart from him, how does the love of God abide in him? My little children, let us not love in word or in tongue, but indeed and in truth.” Do you love God as commanded by God?
Loving God is not an emotional or mouth love.
God sees all hearts under the heaven.
Love Him indeed and in truth.
Prayer for today: Ask that love of God become established in your heart.