“God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God lives in him.” (1John 4:16)
In the epistle of First John, the apostle of Love is giving us ten reasons why we must love one another. Among those ten reasons is the one expressed above.
We must love one another because God is love and the person who loves in this way is living in God and God is living in that person.
One application of what he is writing is that when we plug into the love that God is, we live in God and God lives in us. In the 1950s I made a great discovery. As a social worker while responding to a night call at 3:00AM, I prayed a prayer like this:
“God, You say You are a special quality of love. I believe You are doing Your love thing where people are hurting. I’m now going to where hurting people are. When I get there please pass the love You are through me and address their pain.”
There were times when I prayed that prayer I thought I was being electrocuted with the love of God. I challenge you to accept the challenge of the Apostle John.
Go where the hurting people are with that prayer on your heart. When you become a conduit of God’s love, you will never be satisfied with anything less than having that experience again and again.
This is because as a conduit of the love of God you will experience Who, What and Where God is – and where you want to be for the rest of your life!
Dick Woodward, 06 July 2010
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