THE SOURCE OF LOVE

God is love, love comes from God. God is the source of love. Like the electricity running through electrical wires, love comes from God to us, then flows through us to others in the community. When John exhorts his readers, let us love one another, he is encouraging them to allow God's love to flow through them. For because God is love, love must characterize those who claim to be born of God or to know God (v. 7; 3:10, 14; 4:20-21). Those who claim to be doing the will of God and reflecting God's activity in the world will be known by the love they manifest for God and for each other. This was what metarielized in Yeshua's life and what He told his disciples. Yeshua showed us what love is and by which we accepted Him as the manifested source of divine love. The veil of incomprehension was lifted with our encounter of Yeshua and this incident lifted our hearts to purity. By becoming free of hatred and resentment our hearts became light and free.

Whoever does not love, does not know God. Where there is a lack of love for beings, there is neither love for nor knowledge of God.

God created us with the need to love and be loved, and He alone can satisfy the deepest yearning of every human soul for total love and complete understanding. The things of this earth can satisfy the body, but only God and His eternal love can ever fill that aching spiritual void in our hearts that He created for Himself alone. The human spirit can never be completely satisfied with anything less than utter union with the great and loving Spirit that created it.

“God is love” (1 John 4:8). He is the very Spirit of love itself, true love, everlasting love, real love, genuine love that never ends from a lover who never leaves, the lover of all lovers. He’s pictured in His Son, Yeshua, who came for love and lived in love and died for love that we might live and love forever. “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life” (John 3:16).

David Brandt Berg (D.B.B.)


As people could just understand the magnitude of the Yeshua’s love—how truly unconditional it is, how vast and deep and wide and unending it is—it would solve so many of their problems. They would find freedom from so many of their fears and worries and regrets. If they could just understand that, then they’d know that everything is going to work out, that He is going to cause everything to work together for good (Romans 8:28), because He is in control of every detail and His hand on their lives is so perfectly loving.

D.B.B.


His love for you is unconditional. No matter how weak or disheartened you may feel right now, or how disappointed you may be in yourself or others, He still loves you. His great, perfect, marvelous, unconditional love is not lessened, no matter what the circumstances or conditions. He keeps pouring it on, and pouring it on without measure and without limit.

His love is always there for us, pouring forth in full measure, gushing forth in such abundance! And we can freely experience that love; we can have it manifested in our lives as much as we desire, according to our obedience and yieldedness to Him. He’s always looking for ways to show His love if we’ll just let Him. He’s just waiting for us to make a way, an avenue for His love to pour forth, and we do that by staying close to Him, by loving Him, and by doing the things that He wants us to do.

Maria Fontaine