God is Love.

Reminder: God is love.

Late Valentines Day post... Valentines is not exactly my favorite holiday, I have always wondered why we only celebrate love one day a year when it is worthy of celebration every day. So for that reason I decided to write the post about love not on Valentines Day. I want us to begin to celebrate LOVE daily...

John 3:16-17 "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him."

1 John 4:16-18... "So we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and whoever abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him. By this love perfected with us, so that we may have the confidence for the day of judgement, because as He is so also are we in this world. There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear. For fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not been perfected in love."

John 13:35 "By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.”

1 Corinthians 13:4-8 "Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.Love never ends..."

Four verses about love. I'm sure you have heard of at least one of them if not all of them... but how often do we stop and think to put them together? God is LOVE. God so LOVED us that He sent His son to walk the Earth until He ultimately sacrificed Himself out of His gracious, abundant LOVE for us. Once Christ ascended into Heaven, He sent the Holy Spirit, who resides in us when we are in Christ. With the Holy Spirit abiding in us we are also abiding in LOVE. This is the way people know that we are Christians, if we LOVE one another. Then the beautiful thing is that God produces LOVE in us and through Him we bear fruit. If you go through and replace the world "love" in the 1 Corinthians verse with "God's love in me produces," you will see the kind of person God is forming you into.

Christ LOVES you. His love changes you. His love directs you. His love forgives you. His love protects you. His love perfects you.

Conclusion: Celebrate His love daily. Abide in His love.