SUNDAY, May 17th, 2009

Ooooh I feel special, I'm posting my first passage :P
Alright so yay I just got baptized today =] I'll just continue from where Michael was yesterday.

1 John 4

9 In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him.
10 Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
11 Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.
12 No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us.
13 Hereby know we that we dwell in him, and he in us, because he hath given us of his Spirit.
14 And we have seen and do testify that the Father sent the Son to be the Saviour of the world.
15 Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwelleth in him, and he in God.
16 And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.
17 Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world.
18 There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love.
19 We love him, because he first loved us.
20 If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen?
21 And this commandment have we from him, That he who loveth God love his brother also.

Okayyyy so. The first verse reminds me a lot of John 3:16. "For he so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life." Well that makes sense because it's from the same book...but regardless...moving on..
God loves us THAT MUCH that he would send his only son to DIE for us, that's pretty amazing. As we all know, parents love their children and would do anything, even die for them, to protect them. Now how many of those parents do you think would sacrifice their own child for people in the future that they don't even know, to save them? Not very many. That's how amazing God is, that He would do that for us.
Verse 20 is talking about a hypocrite, basically. Still, I'm sure we've all made this mistake. You hate your siblings or whoever else it may be, yet you love God...that's not what the Bible says. You are supposed to love ALL your enemies and family and neighbors, and worship God. That is part of the deal of worshipping the Lord; you have to love EVERYone.

~Emily