Week 19 (The Apostles’ Teachings) – Day 5: Love One Another

Day 95 – Love One Another – 1 John 3:11-4:21

The final reading of the week takes us to a book focused on love.  We often study the commands to love one another in this book.  And this is important.  But we may miss the larger focus of the book’s concern with love.  This is the larger focus: that God loved us, as revealed through the actions of his Son, Jesus Christ.  If our love for others is based on anything else than God’s love, it will fail.  I like the stick drawing that I keep in my head regarding this issue.  It consists of three stick figures.  Two people, with a third standing in between: Jesus.  Draw a line connecting the two outside figures.  We love through Jesus.  What if you saw Jesus standing in front of everyone you see each day? 

In Christ,

Randy