God Is Love
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.
In my Welsh great, grandfather's home I recall an icon of The Sacred Heart of Jesus hanging over the living room fire place inviting us to spread His love to all, especially those whose life needed filling with love.
We can only ever begin to understand God when accepting His invitation to love Him, by loving all who He invites us to love.
Psalm 86:15 But you, O Lord, are a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness.
Love and faithfulness are manifestations of God's presence in our life, inviting us to become all that He is.
John 15:9-17 As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Abide in my love. If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commandments and abide in his love. These things I have spoken to you, that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be full. This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you
The thoughtful person is well aware that there is within the stream of thoughts that daily flow through our conscious awareness a whisper constantly guiding our steps, inviting us to walk the path that He has designed for us to live a happy, and fulfilling life.
Ephesians 2:4-5 But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ— by grace you have been saved.
No human person is denied Our Father's love, in abundance when we of our free will choose to reciprocate by loving all who the divine mystery sends to us, to love without condition.
1 John 4:9-11 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. 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. Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.
Wise sages over the centuries teach us that God's love for us is never a matter of waiting on God, but of reaching out to those whom God sends to us, to love with all our heart's desire, as if this were our last day alive.
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