Love is made complete when the gladness of the giver gets expressed through the generosity of the recipient to release the gift forward to yet another.

The big problem is not that we are in the world. The problem is the world is in us.

It all comes back to Jesus. Jesus is the Truth. If we don’t comprehend and confess the truth about the Truth, we are sitting ducks for false teachers.

This path of persistent confession is the only pathway by which we are set free of the condemnation we heap on ourselves.

Truth is ever asking the question, Is our inward reality of love becoming the outward activity of love?

The psalmist didn’t fully know how God would redeem him from death, but he knew that if we were united to an eternal God, then he must have a plan for us.

The big issue isn’t whether we are helping people in need; it’s whether our hearts are truly open to those we are helping.

Nothing is more beautiful or winsome or powerful than people laying down their interests and agendas and needs and desires for the best interests of others.

In other words, loving one another is not the condition for salvation but the evidence of it.

John is calling us to aim at a particular variety of love, to aspire to a way of life—eternal life—here and now. Eternal life is life on another level. It’s life in the light of love.