• How you see people has direct correlation with how you think God sees you. 
• Your passion for people is a reflection of your understanding of God’s passion for you.
• Loving your enemies before they become your friends is the fruit of understanding how much God loved you before you knew Him [while you were still a sinner].

If you’re still trying to find a reason to love someone, it’s because to some degree, you think God’s trying to find a reason to love you.

God doesn’t find reasons to love, He IS love.

And likewise for us, we have BECOME love. 

We’ve become re-presenters of the person of Love. 

The reason why John is known as the ‘apostle of love’ was because he constantly talked about himself as the one “whom Jesus loved”. 

It wasn’t pride, as if Jesus didn’t love anyone else. It was understanding that that’s the key to demonstrating love to the world. Your love for people comes from understanding God’s love for you.

Loving people is easy and becomes natural when you finally understand how He has loved you.  

“We love Him because He first loved us” (1 John 4:19)

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