2ND 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.”
Believe God’s love!
Did you know that up to about four months, babies don’t have the capacity to believe something exists if they can’t see it? If you hide their bottle of milk it no longer exists as far as they are concerned. As they grow up babies reach a stage where if you hide something from them, they will keep on looking for it. They realise that objects do exist even when you don’t see them.
Today be reminded that God wants you to believe in his love even when you don’t see it or feel it. He wants you to remember his love. As you believe in the wind even when you don’t feel it, so you can continue to believe in God’s love even in times of darkness when you struggle to feel it.
When tough times come in your life and people ask you “Where is your God?”, choose to believe that your God is with you, that he loves you! And proclaim his love to the non-believers in your life. That’s an opportunity for you to be a strong witness!
Respond to God’s love.
God wants you to respond to his love by loving him back and loving other people. 1 John 4:19 says that “we love because he first loved us”. The more you love him and demonstrate that reality by loving other people—the better you can witness to people. God is asking you to develop a culture of love—to give love and to receive love. Take his example today and love people unconditionally, wholeheartedly and continually.
MAKE IT PERSONAL
Do you struggle to believe or to respond to god’s love? Why or why not?