Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love. 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. No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us. (1 John 4:7-12)
As many times as I have read and meditated on this wonderful passage written so many years ago by John the Apostle, as much as I've been encouraged to try to love as God does, as rich as the imagery of God's love is portrayed here, I missed one significant nuance until I was getting ready for our small group this week. It's so obvious... so simple... yet I missed it. Do you see it? God has chosen to allow his all-sufficient love to remain incomplete until we complete the circle by loving one another as He as loved us. Wow!
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