Love

Today a lot of people are celebrating love and it got me thinking about love in the Bible and how we as Christians need to show love today.

Last week we read about what love looks like in 1 Corinthians 13. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things - and it never ends. (v7-8)

1 John 4 tells us why this matters. Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love. (v8) He showed His love for us by sending Jesus to take on our sins and bring salvation, while we as humans had done nothing to deserve it. In turn, we need to show love to one another.

This love is serious business. It's all over the New Testament and in reading 1 Cor. 13, you see that it's not easy - there is a lot involved. We (or at least I) need to work on showing love to fellow Christians and also those in the world, so they might see Christ's love in us.