Daily Bread - 05/02/07
1 John 4:7 - Beloved let us love one another because he that loves is from God and everyone that loves is begotten of God and knows God.
The most important expression and evidence of the new birth is love. This kind of love is perfectly defined by the life of Jesus who revealed the love of God. The expression of God's love through man is only possible if a person has been begotten of God. God's love by definition is a holy love, one that is so giving and unselfish and was plainly revealed by God through the giving of His only begotten Son. This holy love fulfills all of the law and purpose of God for man in that it works no wrong-doing (Romans 13:10; 1 Corinthians 13:4-8).
The love of God is not expressed to a selective group of people but to the whole world (John 3:16 1 John 4:10; Titus 3:4; 1 Peter 1:17). The love of God causes the sun to shine upon the evil and the good and send rains for the righteous and the unrighteous (Matthew 5:45; Luke 6:35). It is God's nature to bless those who are offenders and persecutors and those of us have been born of Him are called to do the same (Romans 12:14; Luke 6:28). All of God's children are marked with the expression of God's divine love and holy nature. Unfortunately, there is probably not a more neglected subject among His people. Above all other things the expression of this unfailing love must be manifested among us if the world is to know that we have been born of Him (John 13:35; 1 John 2:5,10; 3:11; 4:21).
Above all other things it is our responsibility to show this love one for another among ourselves first and also to the whole world. If we fail to walk in love one for another then we have failed at the most fundamental and essential attribute of our calling (John 13:34; 15:12,17; Romans 12:10; 13:8; Galatians 5:13; 1 Thessalonians 4:9; 1 Peter1:22; 1 John 3:11,23: 1 John 4:11,12; 2 John 5). The message of love is expressed 320 times by the occurrence of the words which are translated love. However, far more words are used to describe its characteristics as it specifically relates to the nature of God and of His people. It is a subject central to the Bible, the Gospel, the Character of God and the revelation of His people. God who is Holy and who is Love has set us apart from the world separating us unto His Love. We should see ourselves totally separated for the purpose of God's love being revealed through us in every situation.
Walk in love!
Pastor Mark Spitsbergen
abidingplace.org
About Me
- Carol L
- San Diego area, California, United States
- I started this blog back in 2005, but in 2006 began dedicating it solely for the purpose of posting email messages called, Daily Bread, sent out Monday through Saturday by my pastor, Mark Spitsbergen. These daily emails contain fresh revelation that Mark gets from the Word of God by the Holy Spirit for that day for the church that God has called him to pastor, Abiding Place. 1 Peter 4:11 says, "If any man speak let him speak as the oracles of God; if any man minister let him do it as of the ability which God gives that God in all things may be glorified through Jesus Christ to whom be praise and dominion forever and ever. Amen." Jesus Christ is the Way, the Truth, and the Life, (John 14:6), and He says, "The words that I speak to you are Spirit, and they are Life." (John 6:63). For the Word of God is quick (alive), and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. (Hebrews 4:12).
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