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Hello everyone, this is my entry to blockchain contest.
This article will focus on how we are God's Love as human.
The text is from 1 John 4:8-20
Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.
In this verse, its shows the relevance and efficacy of love. No one can ever prove knowing God without knowing what Love is. Because it's love that links or create the God awareness in Man.
This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son [2] into the world that we might live through him.
This verse made us to understand that God first showed love to man by giving his most valuable to mankind to be saved. Here love talks about giving your very best to save either situation or person.
This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for [3] our sins.
Here Love is explained as sacrificing, and also God first showed us the meaning of love by putting it in action. To save humanity from perishing he has to make an exchange.
Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.
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No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us.
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We know that we live in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit.
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And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent his Son to be the Savior of the world
These verses is pointing us to how we should show love. Love is an action word and is to be put to practice not be declaring it or laying claims to it.
Before we can say we love God who is an invisible supernatural being, we must have. Experienced it and share it with people we can see around us. With this we can practice love we claim we have to God.
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And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in him.
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In this way, love is made complete among us so that we will have confidence on the day of judgment, because in this world we are like him.
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There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love.
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We love because he first loved us.
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If anyone says, "I love God," yet hates his brother, he is a liar. For anyone who does not love his brother, whom he has seen, cannot love God, whom he has not seen.
The characteristics of love is explained in these verses. There is no fear in love. It is done meaningfully and willingfully. It is not done because of human reward but done as a natural endowment from God.
No one can claim he loves God without loving his neighbour and fellow human being first.
Thanks for reading.