1ST FEBRUARY
1 John 4:16
“So we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and whoever abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him”
Once we “believe the love that God has for us”, we have a reason to take his message of love to other people!
In order to convince other people of God’s love, there are 4 things that we need to do. We need to understand God’s love, experience God’s love, believe God’s love and respond to God’s love.
Understand God’s Love
“In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins” (1 John 4:10).
God loves you. He sent his son to die for you. You belong to him; there is no condemnation for you. He isn’t angry with you. He wants a relationship. He is close to you. He wants to talk to you. He hears you. He feels your pain. He understands your suffering.
Experience God’s Love
“…to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge that you may be filled with all the fullness of God” (Ephesians 3:19).
God wants you to experience his love for yourself—to know it for yourself, to taste and see that he is good. Only when you have experienced that overwhelming love can you testify with passion of his great love to the non-believers in your world.
MAKE IT PERSONAL
If you lack the conviction or the passion to share God’s love, then perhaps you need to experience God’s love in such a fresh, new way so that you will feel compelled to share it. Ask God to begin to show his love to you deep down in your heart.