God loved us first now we can love others

“We love because he first loved us” (1 John 4:19 NIV)

To give the kind of love that God wants you to give, you first have to have His kind of love present in your heart. Look around at society, and you’ll see it’s littered with debris from relationships that have crashed and burned because people didn’t have God’s kind of love present in their hearts. According to the passage above, God loved us first and that enabled us to love others. How do you get this kind of love? You start by letting God love you.

Everyone who loves has been born of God

“Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God.” (1 John 4:7)

A full understanding and expression of His love

“May the Lord lead your hearts into a full understanding and expression of the love of God and the patient endurance that comes from Christ.” (2 Thess. 3:5)

“Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God.  Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love.” (1 John 4:7-8)

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“One who has been touched by grace will no longer look on those who stray as ‘those evil people’ or ‘those poor people who need our help.’ Nor must we search for signs of ‘loveworthiness.’ Grace teaches us that God loves because of who God is, not because of who we are.” Philip Yancey