A Chapter a Day...

Seriously, reading a chapter of the Word of God a day will change your life! Please join me in this challenge as we start off with the book of Ephesians and move on from there.

Challenge 1: Read one chapter each day and pick the one verse that spoke to you the most...blog it and write why it stood out to you.

Monday, April 11, 2011

1 John 4

18 Such love has no fear, because perfect love expels all fear. If we are afraid, it is for fear of punishment, and this shows that we have not fully experienced his perfect love. 19 We love each othert because he loved us first.
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Love, love, love...this chapter is all about the love of God and how we are supposed to reflect that in our lives! It shows how love is important of all things. I think it shows that after the description of God being a holy God, He must be described as a loving God--because that is what makes Him, the invisible, visible to us. Right here we see that we should not fear God or being separated from Him if we have a clear conscious through experiencing his perfect love...if we truly understand His forgiveness and can forgive ourselves...we will be able to experience His perfect love and will never fear punishment and separation from our Lord! It is such a beautiful place to be in...to know that our Lord will never let go of us! This reminds me of the story of Joseph and his brothers...his brothers were afraid of what he would do to them after their father died and pleaded to Joseph saying "don't kill us"...and Joseph wept..I think it's because they did not understand the reflection Joseph had of perfect love and forgiveness... So let's reflect this in our lives and love each other because He first loved us!
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  1. BorschApril 12, 2011 at 8:40 AM

    18 There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love.

    There is no fear in love. Because of the love we have with Christ and the Father there is no fear that can be in us. Or else we have not truly received love. We have nothing to fear because God loves us. Crazy to think about this love. How awesome it is. In the second half of chapter 4 John is attempting to describe how awesome this love is.

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  2. UnknownApril 15, 2011 at 5:38 AM

    12 No one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God abides in us and his love is perfected in us.

    John is saying that God is revealed to the world around us by the way that we live our lives. If we love as Christ has commanded us to love, then people will be able to catch a glimpse of God. What an incredible and incredibly challenging verse. Do we live in such a way that Christ is magnified through our lives. Do people see Christ in you?

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