Day 359

December 25th
1 John 4:7-5:21; 2 John 1; 3 John 1.  “What Kind of Love”
God’s love for us could never be displayed greater than by what we remember at Christmas; God sending His Son.
This morning I was reading about another new world religion.  It is called the Temple of Love.  The followers believe all religions and peoples can unite under just the auspice of love.  First John 4:8 intentionally reads “God is love” not “love is God.”  Our world has so perverted and misinterpreted love.  It is to them something that makes the world go around and makes it all happy and right.  However, the love they describe is selfish, often freeing them from any kind of obligation or principle.  God is not that kind of love.  “Real love is like God, who is holy, just and perfect.  If we truly know God, we will love as he does” (Life App.).  So, if we are a child of God who is love what does it look like to love as He asks?  God’s love is holy, sacrificial and pure of motive.  His love looks for ways to bring about our best; maturity, provision, protection, etc.  So, as we love one another we are also to reveal that same kind of love.