
Blessings
Dear friends,
We can love others no matter what because we have an unending source of love within us, the Holy Spirit. God’s core nature is self-giving love, according to John the apostle, who lived with Jesus and was an eyewitness to the cross and resurrection. God is love. Love is always the right response. And we will be a church who loves others no matter what.
1 John 4:7-15 reads:
7 Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God.8 Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.9 This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. 10 This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. 11 Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. 12 No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us, and his love is made complete in us.
13 This is how we know that we live in him and he in us: He has given us of his Spirit. 14 And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent his Son to be the Savior of the world. 15 If anyone acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God, God lives in them and they in God.16 And so we know and rely on the love God has for us.
This is a letter written by John the apostle, who was a disciple of Jesus. John spent lots of time with Jesus. He watched Jesus, he listened to Jesus, he asked Jesus questions. John was an eyewitness to the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ.
But it doesn’t end there. Do you know one more way John interacted with Jesus, even after the cross and resurrection? John received the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of Christ, the presence of God in his mind and heart. This is important because the ministry of Jesus did not end with the cross and resurrection. God then sent his Spirit to live and dwell within us. You have this, Spirit.
Do you know what this means? It means that because of the indwelling Spirit of God, God is always with you. You are never alone. Anywhere you go, God goes. You don’t have to go to a special place or building to enter into God’s presence because God has already put His presence within you.
“Don’t tell God how big your problems are,
Tell your problems how big your God is.”
Blessings,
Pastor Tammy
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