Our church is doing 40 Days of Love. I stumbled upon this today and thought it went right along with what we are studying. It was weird because I had to double check to see if I wrote this because it was if I was reading what somebody else wrote as it spoke to me. I guess you could say God turned my own words on me! LOL.
For some time, God has been speaking to me on the topic of love and abiding in Christ. The two of them go hand in hand. We cannot truly love apart from God (and I know this by experience without a doubt). We cannot fear if we have love because perfect love casts out fear.
There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves torment. But he who fears has not been made perfect in love (1 John 4:18).
Have you ever noticed that at the root of all our bad behavior is fear? We fear being hurt. We fear failure. We fear insecurity. We fear not being loved. We fear pain. We fear suffering. We want to protect ourselves against these things because we fear them. There is one thing that overcomes all of this fear. That thing is perfect love.
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