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This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down His life for us.

Dear children, let US not love with words or tongue but with actions and in truth.  This then is how we know that we belong to the truth, and how we set our hearts at rest in His presence whenever our hearts condemn us.  For God is greater than our hearts, and He knows everything.

Dear friends, if our hearts do not condemn us, we have confidence before God and receive from Him anything we ask, because we obey His commands and do what pleases Him.  And THIS is His command: to believe in the name of His son, Jesus Christ, and to love one another as He commanded us.  Those who obey His commands live in Him, and He in them.  And this is how we know that He lives in us: We know by the Spirit he gave us.

1 John 3:16, 18-20


How do we set our hearts at rest in His presence, even when our hearts seem to condemn us?  Love one another.  Not with words or tongue, but with actions and in truth.  God is greater than our own hearts, which get confused, tied up, and blinded; He knows, even before we do, how we're living our lives and whether or not we're living in love.  Living in love, in truth.  

The One who taught the world what love is, displaying it for them on the cross?  He lives in us.  What better "trainer in love" could I ever find?


Mark 10:45 -
For EVEN the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life as a ransom for many

 Matt 16:25 -
For whoever wants to save His life will lose it, but whoever loses His life for me will FIND IT.  What good will it be for a man if He gains the whole world, yet forfeits His soul?

from John chp 4 -
...true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks... 'My food', said Jesus, 'is to do the will of Him who sent me and to finish His work... I tell you, open your eyes and look at the fields!  They are ripe for harvest.

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