God is Love

 2/18/2025

This is not my first attempt at blogging, and this may not be the venue I rest upon. In obedience to God my Father, I am beginning to write again. I am not sure how one keeps others from writing in this space. There was no prompt for putting a password on it. And at first it said it didn't go through and now I am typing in it. It looks like my location is Australia which makes no sense.  Ohio it is.

My journalling this morning was a reflection on how God loves me. God is Love.  It is a very short verse, I John 4:8 "He who does not love does not know God, for God is love."  My father gave me this verse when I was a teenager finding my junior-high and high school years difficult. My old diary may even have it written somewhere, so that I can remember a date. It also may be earlier from 6th grade when I had an autograph album and my father signed it for me.

Today's reflection is that I am loved uniquely by the God of the Bible. That does not make me special because we are all uniquely loved by Father God. Yet, there is a unique love that I feel from Father God towards me. And I am to reflect that love for others. There are a few quite difficult people that I love in this way; an agape love which I can't explain. I know they are difficult people and I know others can barely stand them, but I like them. Of course, there are others who I have difficulty in finding a liking for.  But the ones that I 'like' who are difficult seem to be a reflection of how God loves us uniquely, foibles, flaws, gifts and all.