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God’s essence is love, and we are made in His image. (see 1Jo 4:8 and Gen 1:26-27). Therefore our redeemed nature God intends is that we love both Him and one another. He emphasizes this when Jesus instructs, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment. And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” (Mat 22:37b-39).
He leaves no room for misinterpretation when He tells us, “Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love.” (1Jo 4:8).
The problem with our flesh is we have a propensity to love only those who accept and love us back. But thanks be to God that He loved us when we were still unlovable (see Rom 5:8), and He desires that we do the same (see Luk 6:27-36). This is the fruit of a real Christian’s heart.
Love is the litmus test that proves our regeneration as a new creature, that we are transformed by the Holy Spirit with the divine nature of Christ formed within our hearts. It is the strongest evidence by which God judges us.
If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing. (1Co 13:3). We can die for Christ, but it is meaningless unless we love God and the people He created, even the unlovable ones.
Lord, Thank you for loving us and teaching us to love You and everyone around us. You instruct us that nothing is more important, and that as we become more like you, we become more the love that You are.