Love Comes From God

A few months ago I was reading through 1 John 4:7-21 in the bible and it was talking about why we should love, who we should love and why it’s important that we love one another as God has loved us.  And before I even finished I took a moment to think and I was inspired to write a short quote about God’s love and how He sent an example of His love through Jesus Christ.  It doesn't go into a lot of detail, but it gives a simplified meaning of why we should love and its importance.  Below are both the quote and the bible verses for you to read.

Inspired Quote:

Jesus was sent to love, so He loved and through this example we ourselves should exemplify love also.

Bible verses in [1 John 4:7-21]:

Dear friends, we should love each other, because love comes from God.  Everyone who loves has become God’s child.  And so everyone who loves knows God.  Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love.  This is how God showed his love to us: He sent his only Son into the world to give us life through him.  True love is God’s love for us, not our love for God.  He sent his Son as the way to take away our sins.

That is how much God loved us, dear friends! So we also must love each other.  No one has ever seen God.  But if we love each other, God lives in us.  If we love each other, God’s love has reached its goal—it is made perfect in us.   

We know that we live in God and God lives in us.  We know this because he gave us his Spirit.  We have seen that the Father sent his Son to be the Savior of the world, and this is what we tell people now.  Anyone who says, “I believe that Jesus is the Son of God,” is a person who lives in God, and God lives in that person.  So we know the love that God has for us, and we trust that love.

God is love.  Everyone who lives in love lives in God, and God lives in them.  If God’s love is made perfect in us, we can be without fear on the day when God judges the world.  We will be without fear, because in this world we are like Jesus.  Where God’s love is, there is no fear, because God’s perfect love takes away fear.  It is his punishment that makes a person fear.  So his love is not made perfect in the one who has fear.

  

We love because God first loved us.  If we say we love God but hate any of our brothers or sisters in his family, we are liars.  If we don't love someone we have seen, how can we love God? We have never even seen him.  God gave us this command: If we love God, we must also love each other as brothers and sisters.

Thanks for taking the time to read. Much love to you all! ❤

Categories: God's Love, Inspiration, Life, Love Comes From God, Quotes, True Love

Passionate Living Quotes

Sometimes we need to be reminded…that no matter what troubling circumstances that might happen in our lives we must keep going and never give up.  Below I am sharing a collection of my favorite quotes that reflect on passion and enthusiasm that help me to stay determined throughout my everyday journey in achieving my lifelong goals. Make sure to comeback from time to time and checkout this collection of quotes as the list will continue to grow overtime.

Howard Thurman: “Don’t ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.”

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.: “Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable… Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals.”

Terri Guillemets: “Renew your passions daily.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson: “Enthusiasm is one of the most powerful engines of success. When you do a thing, do it with all your might. Put your whole soul into it. Stamp it with your own personality. Be active, be energetic and faithful, and you will accomplish your object. Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.”

T. Alan Armstrong: “If there is no passion in your life, then have you really lived? Find your passion, whatever it may be. Become it, and let it become you and you will find great things happen FOR you, TO you and BECAUSE of you.”

Roald Dahl: “I began to realize how important it was to be an enthusiast in life. He taught me that if you are interested in something, no matter what it is, go at it at full speed ahead. Embrace it with both arms, hug it, love it and above all become passionate about it. Lukewarm is no good. Hot is no good either. White hot and passionate is the only thing to be.”

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel: “Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.”

Steve Pavlina: “Passion and purpose go hand in hand. When you discover your purpose, you will normally find it’s something you’re tremendously passionate about.”

Travis McAshan: “Purpose may point you in the right direction but it’s passion that propels you.”

With Love,
-SimplistixMe

Categories: Inspiration, Life, Motivation, Passionate Living, Quotes