Date: Tuesday, 5th March, 2024
Text: 1 John 4:7-11
Author: Pastor Adedeji Fadehan
Exhortation:
In addition to Faith and Hope, the third essential in our walk with God is Love. Apostle Paul wrote, “And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.” 1 Corinthians 13:13.
Love, selfless love is greater than any spiritual gift.
If you want to summarize all God’s commandments into two sentences, it will be “Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind; and thy neighbour as thyself”- Luke 10:27
Today’s text puts it this way, “Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God. He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him.Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.” 1 John 4:7-11.
All our actions are weighed by God; he looks at the motives behind all we do. Actions motivated by love for God and humanity (not selfish interests or self recognition) carry God’s blessings and have eternal rewards.
If there is anything we need to daily pursue, it is to live a life of love.
Prayer Nugget: Father, I receive grace to love like Christ did in Jesus name.