Monday December 01st, 2025
« Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God »
7 Dear friends, let us continue to love one another, for love comes from God. Anyone who loves is a child of God and knows God.
8 But anyone who does not love does not know God, for God is love.
9 God showed how much He loved us by sending His one and only Son into the world so that we might have eternal life through Him.
10 This is real love—not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son as a sacrifice to take away our sins.
One great proof of godliness is seen in the death of our Lord Jesus Christ, who sacrificed His life for us in love.
He expressly commands us to love, according to John 13:34-35NKJV
« A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another; as I have loved you, that you also love one another. By this all will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another.” »
By the rate at which hatred is growing among some self-professing believers, we can ask, “Where is the fulfilment of this commandment?”
There could be many reasons for this unpleasant development in the Body of Christ.
One is the loss of focus on heaven – where we all aspire to spend eternity.
Related to that is the love for this present age.
When a person begins to feel jealousy towards another, hatred develops and before long, godliness is thrown to the wind.
In our memory verse taken from the main text, John – the Apostle of love, wrote, 1 John 4:7 CEV
« My dear friends, we must love each other. Love comes from God, and when we love each other, it shows we have been given new life. We are now God’s children, and we know him »
The above Scripture shows the importance of love among brethren.
Beloved, are you living in love ?
Remember, if you are not living in love, you are in death, according to 1 John 3:14NASB, which says
« We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brothers and sisters. The one who does not love remains in death »
Apostle Paul said in 1 Corinthians 13:4-6NLT
4 Love is patient and kind. Love is not jealous or boastful or proud
5 or rude. It does not demand its own way. It is not irritable, and it keeps no record of being wronged.
6 It does not rejoice about injustice but rejoices whenever the truth wins out
Be sure to remove hatred from your heart today, if you do not want all your Christian service to be in vain on the last day.
There’s no godliness without love.
Prayer focus – Father, please rekindle Your love in me towards my brethren and let this same love propel me to go out in search of sinners, for their salvation.
Author – Bishop Enoch Adejare Adeboye; General Overseer of the RCCG
Posted by Naomie Joseph
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