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LOVE FOR GOD GIVES CONFIDENCE
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 8
1 John 4:19-20
2 Peter 2:20-22
 
“… they have escaped the pollutions
of the world through the knowledge of
the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ …”
 
LOVE FOR GOD GIVES CONFIDENCE
 
God first loved us and so we love Him. Complete obedience which is a show of the believer’s love for God gives confidence that even judgment will come with reward, not punishment. Our love for God is the return of His love because He first loved us. John had first-hand experience being one of the earliest disciples of Jesus. The Apostle John called himself the disciple whom Jesus loved. He did not regret any minute that he spent with Jesus while the Lord was with them. This first-hand experience taught him much about the love of God.
 
The Jewish leaders looked down on the disciples of Christ because they were not educated. However, when these disciples spoke, these Jewish leaders marvelled and took note that they had been with Jesus. In their humility they were raised to the highest plane in Jewish society. Their exaltation was the cause of constant persecution. Nevertheless God manifested great works through their hands. John saw all these as the gift of God’s grace and said that God first loved us. He did not fail to link the love of God to the love for the brethren. He added, “If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen?” (1 John 4:20). This is a logical conclusion. It paints a clear picture of what the Christian community should look like externally.
 
Love for God must be enlarged in the hearts of His children. There is a need to give priority to the things that pertain to God. Love for the brethren is also a living testimony. There is always boldness when we thus keep God’s commandments.
 
THOUGHT: Love for God must always be in the superlative scale.
PRAYER: May Thy love be the signature of my life, O Lord.

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