On this day we celebrate love, may we focus our hearts on
God’s word on the topic.
“Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from
God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God. Anyone who
does not love does not know God, because God is love. In this the
love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into
the world, so that we might live through him. 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. Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to
love one another. No one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God
abides in us and his love is perfected in us.
By this we know that we abide in him and he in us, because
he has given us of his Spirit. And we have seen and testify that the
Father has sent his Son to be the Savior of the world. Whoever
confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God. 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. By this is
love perfected with us, so that we may have confidence for the day of
judgment, because as he is so also are we in this world. There is no
fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear. For fear has to do with
punishment, and whoever fears has not been perfected in love. We love because he first
loved us. If anyone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is
a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen cannot love
God whom he has not seen. And this commandment we have from him: whoever
loves God must also love his brother.”
1 John 4:7-21, ESV
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