Choose to Share God’s Love

“Wise choices will watch over you. Understanding will keep you safe.”
— Proverbs 2:11 (NLT)

“The driver on the highway is safe not when he knows how to read the signs, but when he obeys them.”
— A.W. Tower

“Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God. Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love. In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him. In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.”

— 1 John 4:7-11

1. God is love.

“Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love.
— 1 John 4:8

2. God loves us.

“In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.”
— 1 John 4:10

God did not send Jesus as a reward to the obedient. He sent Jesus as a ransom for the defiant.

“Even before he made the world, God loved us and chose us in Christ to be holy and without fault in his eyes. God decided in advance to adopt us into his own family by bringing us to himself through Jesus Christ.”

— Ephesians 1:4–5 (NLT)

3. We love others.

“Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.”
— 1 John 4:11

When God’s love hits you, God’s love changes you.

“By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
— John 13:35

We release what we have received.

And he said, “There was a man who had two sons. And the younger of them said to his father, ‘Father, give me the share of property that is coming to me.’ And he divided his property between them. Not many days later, the younger son gathered all he had and took a journey into a far country, and there he squandered his property in reckless living.And when he had spent everything, a severe famine arose in that country, and he began to be in need. So he went and hired himself out to one of the citizens of that country, who sent him into his fields to feed pigs. And he was longing to be fed with the pods that the pigs ate, and no one gave him anything.“But when he came to himself, he said, ‘How many of my father’s hired servants have more than enough bread, but I perish here with hunger! I will arise and go to my father, and I will say to him, “Father, I have sinned against heaven and before you. I am no longer worthy to be called your son. Treat me as one of your hired servants.”And he arose and came to his father. But while he was still a long way off, his father saw him and felt compassion, and ran and embraced him and kissed him.
— Luke 15:11-20

How do we share God’s love?
1. See them.
2. Serve them.
3. Show them.