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Learning to Love

 Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. The one who does not love does not know God, for God is love.

1st John 4:7-8

 

  If you are a painter, you have to know how to paint. If you are a runner, you need to be able to run. If you are an author, you need to be able to write.   That is the basis to do that thing.

  What about a child of God?

 John spells it out to us very clearly. If we want to be born of God and know God, we must love. That is who he is and what we must do.

  To follow Him is to learn how to love. It is the defining trait(1st John 3:10). It’s how the world will see we are his (John 11:35). It's the top of the traits that will always be (1st Corinthians 13:13).

  Love is why we follow his commands (2nd John 1:6). Love fulfills the law (Romans 13:8-9). It is how faith works (Galatians 5:6).

  So, we'd better know how to love. What love is. What it is not. How it acts. ( 1st Corinthians 13 is a great place to start.)

  Love makes us like God. 



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