Today we start worship with :
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... And this commandment we have from him: whoever loves God must also love his brother.
Starting with the fact of our very existence, Job deduced that God must exist, and that God must have a divine purpose that includes love toward us. On that foundation of God’s love John and Job both agree that we may have confidence for the day of judgement.
And after my skin has been thus destroyed,yet in my flesh I shall see God,whom I shall see for myself,and my eyes shall behold, and not another.My heart faints within me!
John then, having heard the command from the lips of our Lord Jesus Christ, connects us back to that purpose. As He is, so we are to be.
A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another. By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
Love is our identity.
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