Daily Word

“God is love. Love is of God.”

God is the Origin and Source of love – without Him, what we call love does not exist.

This is one of the most important truths of the Bible and absolutely decisive for our view of man and his origin.

That there is such a reality as love is one of the strongest proofs for the existence of God.

If man is really a product of matter through chance and evolution, no love exists, because then man is not a person, and love is something distinctive of a true person.

If there is no personal God, there is no love and man is not a person.

God – love – person are inseparable realities.

This also shows that love is fundamentally a spiritual reality, not a psycho-physical sensation.

"God is Love" - "God is Spirit" are synonymous and indivisible realities.

Therefore, we do not gain a clear understanding of what love is until we are born of God and His love has become our true nature—just like God.

"You shall love" is a basic word from the Creator to man.

To love is fundamental to true human life.

But it must begin with a love relationship with the Source of Love.

Therefore, it is said: "You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart."

This is impossible until we have received "a new heart and a new spirit".

The Fall has made man a false person, incapable of true love. He can perform incredible, heroic deeds, but Paul says, "if I give all my possessions to feed the poor, and if I surrender my body to be burned, but do not have love, it profits me nothing."

John explains that Love has entered the world through God sending His Son to blot out our sin and make it possible for humanity to partake of His Spirit.

God is the Eternal, Heavenly Love; Jesus Christ is the Love that walked here on earth.