Love God and Love Others - The Dietrich Bonhoeffer Institute.
As we seek God's blessing we receive it, and the effect of that in our lives is the joy of knowing that God loves us, so much more than we can imagine. Our Heavenly Father is the source of all blessings, by his divine will we receive the bounty of his goodness, all the temporal and spiritual possessions which are a mere token of our heavenly inheritance. As we meditate about the blessings of.
God Loves Others More Than Me “God has favorites,” she said, “I have seen them.” This just went against everything in my heart at the moment as I have been considering God’s love for me. But then, I know what she means. I have also had that thought. Others seem to get blessed more, have their prayers answered, are financially more blessed, more successful, everything goes well for.
If anyone says, “I love God,” yet hates his brother, he is a liar. For anyone who does not love his brother, whom he has seen, cannot love God, whom he has not seen. And He has given us this command: Whoever loves God must also love his brother. (1 John 4:20-21) God tells us throughout The Bible to love other people. In fact, 1 John 4:20-21.
The answer is that love will often require that we get outside of ourselves, outside of our wants and our wishes, outside of the normal human patterns. When we share God’s love we’re sharing a love that is sacrificial, full of grace, and full of mercy. We must learn to love others as God loves us.
But loving God and loving one’s neighbor are vague concepts unless concretized, let us then make our love real so we may share real love with those who need it. To love is to serve.
Don’t be disheartened when the people you love don’t see things like you do. There will be Pharisees in your life that will laugh it off, deny that it happened, or will mock your experience based on righteousness they think you don't possess. God won't deny you a spiritual experience because you are not a spiritual leader. He loves everyone.
God loves us whether we respond to Him in love or not. His love for us is not based on our response, but on His character. The Bible says that God is love (I John 4:8, 16). Now, this does not mean that because God loves everyone people do not have any responsibility to respond to His love. What it means is that God is always ready to wrap us in His loving arms when we turn to Him in repentance.