Pursue love, pursue Love
We come to week 4 asking what it means to pursue love in the context of our following Jesus. It seems obvious and maybe that is part of the problem. Love is so “obvious” that we walk right by it without engaging it. We speak of it with such frequency that it has all but lost meaning- the word anyway. Words are, after all, merely an attempt to represent a reality so we can communicate. My word “love” may seem so very different from what you mean when you say “love.”
What is clear is that love is important for our faith, for our connection to God and God’s connection to us. Love is from God, God is love. There is a lot rolled up in this word and this week trying to figure out how we can use it and make it meaningful in life was a challenge. Looking forward to sharing some thoughts about it in worship… Here’s a taste of the text we’re using for worship:
1John 4:7
Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. 8 Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love. 9 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. 10 This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. 11 Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. 12 No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us.
