Love

John reminds the believers of the lavishness of God’s love that is theirs—a love their opponents know nothing about! Apart from such grace and love there would have been no “children of God.”

God loves the unloved and the unlovely. He loves us when we hate Him. He loves us when we ignore or are indifferent to Him. That’s what the love of God is like. It is primarily concerned with the others’ well-being despite negative reaction or response.

“Like Father, like son,” so they say. The children should take after the Father. Do we love others as we have been loved of God? Do we love the unlovely and lavish love on those who ignore us, hate us, and despise us? The Holy Spirit will scatter such love around our lives if only we will ask Him.

Jill P. Briscoe

Taken from Women of Faith Devotional Bible