Devotionals for September 15, 2022
Come to Theology Thursdays today at 12:00pm! Bring your lunch, questions, and Bible.
READ
1 JOHN 4:7-12
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.
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.
REFLECT
How we love others depends Who we love the most. Thank God, literally, He has defined and showed love to us in its purest form. Though the world wants to define love by starting with self, God has once-and-for-all testified to love’s source and meaning
APPLY
Q: Why is John emphasizing “God is love” in this passage? Why is this important?
Q: How did God love you first? How does this spur you on to love others?
Q: What is your first love in your life? How is this affecting those around you?
Q: How did God love you first? How does this spur you on to love others?
Q: What is your first love in your life? How is this affecting those around you?
SING
PRAY
"Forgive us our sins, as we have forgiven those who sin against us."
Lord, forgive me for not putting you as my first love. I have worried too much about things out of my control. Father, help to love and to forgive as your Son has forgiven me.
Lord, forgive me for not putting you as my first love. I have worried too much about things out of my control. Father, help to love and to forgive as your Son has forgiven me.