Verse
If anyone boasts, “I love God,” and goes right on hating his brother or sister, thinking nothing of it, he is a liar. If he won’t love the person he can see, how can he love the God he can’t see? The command we have from Christ is blunt: Loving God includes loving people. You’ve got to love both. (1 John 4:20, 21 MSG)
My Word or Phrase
Loving
My Image
What comes to mind as I think about this verse is a stream. You see the water in a stream does not just sit there, it is flowing, it is active. This is what our love should be like, flowing, active. We are to be loving God and loving others – remembering that it is not an either/or but it is both – loving God and loving others.
My Invitation
We are told in Matthew to love God with all we are – heart, mind & soul and to love others as well. My invitation is to make sure that my loving God and loving others is a continuous process. Like the stream of flowing water, my love must be allowed to run free; to continually be loving God and loving others. I must make sure that there are no dams that have been built to block my love from flowing freely. What are the dams that I build to block this flow?
My questions to you are: How is your love flowing? Have you built dams that are blocking the flow or your love towards God or others?