All You Need is Love (or the best reason to love)

Sometimes I find it hard to love my brothers, much less my enemies. Yet, 1 John tells us that God is love and we ought to therefore love one another because love is from God.

4:7 Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God. 8 Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love. 9 In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him. 10 In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. 11 Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. 12 No one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God abides in us and his love is perfected in us.

I put this song together as a reminder that I am called to love, not because of anything in me that can do so, but because God in me allows me to love. I am unlovable, a child of wrath who deserves nothing but punishment. But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved me, even when I was dead in my trespasses, made me alive together with Christ! It is not that I loved God, but that He loved me; how can I not, therefore, love my brothers, love my enemies, love those whom I have never met? God loved me when I was at enmity with Him. I therefore will love. After all, it is the new command that Jesus gave us, is it not?

I hope this encourages you to love.

I love you.

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