Day Six: love one another (cont.)

LGLP - love God, love people.

The simplest way to understand your mission. Love has its own language and needs no definition. Love sometimes is the only way you can explain something and rarely do you need words. The Bible puts it this way in 1st John 4:7-21...

Gods Love and Ours

"Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love. This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us.

We know that we live in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit. And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent his Son to be the Savior of the world. If anyone acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God, God lives in him and he in God. And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in him. In this way, love is made complete among us so that we will have confidence on the day of judgment, because in this world we are like him. There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love.

We love because he first loved us. If anyone says, 'I love God,' yet hates his brother, he is a liar. For anyone who does not love his brother, whom he has seen, cannot love God, whom he has not seen. And he has given us this command: Whoever loves God must also love his brother."

God's love... then ours. I love the title of this section of 1 John 4. Pretty much sums up the whoooole concept. God's Love and Ours - He loved us first, so that we can understand and love second. Let God love through you. We are not loving apart from Him. God is love, God in us, love in us. So with a true relationship with God, you are not without love. Therefore, you in turn love people. If you choose not to love people, then God's true love is not inside you. Powerful, right?? How many times have you chosen not to love someone?? I know I have been guilty of that, A LOT. Well, those are the moments you deny Christ and reject His relationship and grace. There is abounding love in us as God abides in us... DO NOT rely on yourself!! Let the author of love use you. He understands far more than you ever could.

Today is our last day of work. I hope that we can share just a little bit more with these kids before we have to leave. However much we felt like we were going to teach them, they taught us, two-fold.

-k10