The Source of Love

Tradition and Wisdom
Teaching and Learning:
TRADITION AND LOVE

1 John 4:7-12

The Message

God Is Love

 ^7-10My beloved friends, let us continue to love each other since love comes from God. Everyone who loves is born of God and experiences a relationship with God. The person who refuses to love doesn't know the first thing about God, because God is love—so you can't know him if you don't love. This is how God showed his love for us: God sent his only Son into the world so we might live through him. This is the kind of love we are talking about—not that we once upon a time loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as a sacrifice to clear away our sins and the damage they've done to our relationship with God. ^11-12My dear, dear friends, if God loved us like this, we certainly ought to love each other. No one has seen God, ever. But if we love one another, God dwells deeply within us, and his love becomes complete in us—perfect love!

For Reflection
To teach is to love.  To learn is to love the teacher.  God loves us.  God teaches us.  As we learn, God burrows deeper into us and becomes the source of all wisdom.  God-centered wisdom is born in love.
Listen to the whispers of God who resides in you.

Pray
Thank god for the capacity to love.  Pray that love will be you guiding principle of interaction.  Pray that you love God deeply and passionately.  Pray that you will grow in God-centered wisdom.