1 John 4 – watercress words by Dr Aletha

“Dear friends, let us continue to love one another, for love comes from God.

Anyone who loves is a child of God and knows God. But anyone who does not love does not know God, for God is love.

God showed how much he loved us by sending his one and only Son into the world so that we might have eternal life through him. This is real love—not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as a sacrifice to take away our sins.

Dear friends, since God loved us that much, we surely ought to love each other. No one has ever seen God. But if we love each other, God lives in us, and his love is brought to full expression in us.”

1 John 4:7-11, NLT

Though our feelings come and go, God's love for us does not-quote about love from C.S. Lewis — C.S. Lewis, British novelist, poet, academic, literary critic, essayist, lay theologian, broadcaster, lecturer, and Christian apologist. graphic from Lightstock.com, stock photo site (affiliate link)

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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 is love perfected with us, so that we may have confidence for the day of judgment, 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. We love because he first loved us. If anyone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen cannot loveGod whom he has not seen. And his commandment we have from him: whoever loves God must also love his brother.

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