The True Definition of Love - Advent Week 4 | Breathe & Receive | 38

What is love? I get the 90's song by Haddaway stuck in my head (I definitely had to look up the artist)! But what IS love? People like to come up with their own definitions of love, but God tells us what love truly is. Not only does he tell us, he showed us by sending Jesus to rescue us. We were in bondage to darkness, to sin, but God rescued us, so that we can spend eternity in his loving presence. That's GOOD news! 

 

For week 4 of Advent, we're meditating on 1 John 4:9-11 (NIV) which tells us what love is. 

This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. 

 

This is the first verse of our passage in French. This is an invitation to take your focus off of yourself, and remember the body of Christ around the world, who is celebrating Christ’s birth, and awaiting his return along with you.

Voici comment l'amour de Dieu s’est manifesté envers nous: Dieu a envoyé son Fils unique dans le monde afin que par lui nous ayons la vie. (Second 21)

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