Our starting point for loving God well
is learning from Jesus how to love others
like God loves us.
This is a fascinating pattern you're going to see in our passage today
as we've already read through, but we'll look at it again.
There is a
logical disconnect
in the grammatical flow
of this concept.
God loves you
therefore you should love...
you would think
the logical grammatical flow
would end that sentence with the word God.
God loves you, therefore you should love God.
God laid his life down for you
therefore you should lay your life down for God.
God cares for you therefore you should care for God.
That God would say,
"I love you so much
and that's why I want you to love..."
You would think he'd say, "me."
But he says, "I love you so much
and that's why I want you to love
everybody else."
And that pattern happens over, and over, and over again.
I think it would be easy for us to say
"You know, I love God"
and God knows that he says, "I know, I'm a pretty great guy
and I'm overwhelming, don't you think?
I mean, how are you not going to love me?"
But he says that'd be easy and also
we might be second guessing ourselves about "how can I
get the blessing out of God and make sure that I... so I'm going to love him and..."
and leave people behind, but see
"You know how much I love you?"
That amazing love that I have for you is the amazing love that I have for the people around you as well.
So
the same spirit that's in you, reminding you[ of God's love for you
is the same spirit that's in others reminding them and
wants to use you to validate that message.
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