If God So Loved Us We Also Ought To Love One Another

Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another - 1 John 4:11.

If God so loved us     

          God so loved the world that He gave His only son that we might not perish but live through Him and have an everlasting life. For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life - John 3:16. In this the love of God was manifested toward us, that God has sent His only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through Him. In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins - 1 John 4:9,10.

We also ought to love one another

            God commands us to love one another as we are born of God when we love one another. My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you - John 15:12. We love Him because He first loved us, If someone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen? And this commandment we have from Him: that he who loves God must love his brother also - 1 John 4:17-21. Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God - 1 John 4:7.  

           Let us thank God for His great love for us and if God so loved us, let us also love one another. I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me - Galatians 2:20. How great is the love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! - 1 John 3:1. He who does not love does not know God, for God is love - 1 John 4:8. No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us, and his love is made complete in us - 1 John 4:12.  

                                                      

PRAYER: Dear Lord, We thank You for Your great love towards us. We thank You for sending Your only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through You. Let us also love one another like how You loved us. In Jesus’ name we pray. Amen.