![]() ![]() ![]() In order to love others and to become great lovers, we first need to understand and intuitively know how much God loves us. He showed that love by everything you have in life - even your trials and sufferings it’s all a gift of God’s love. And he showed that love by sending Jesus Christ to Earth to bring us into a right relationship with him and so that we would have access to the grace and love we need to live in authentic love. The only reason you can love God or love anybody else is because God first loved you. He loved us first, and that gives us the ability to love others (1 John 4:19). Pastor Rick Warren says: But love all started with God. We were created in God’s image to do two things on Earth: Learn to love God above all things and learn to love other people with his love. The only reason we’re able to love is because God loves us first: “Love comes from God … because God is love” (1 John 4:7-8). The reason God wants us to love is because he is love, and he created us to be like him - to be love. That is important! His personal love for us is the foundation for our ability to love others, but… there is more. Sacred Scripture tells us that “We love because he first loved us” (1 John 4:19). In order to give love to others, we first need to receive God's personal love for us. This page is all about learning how to make ourselves a capacity - people who can be completely filled with the love of God - so that we can effectively love others.īut let's start with first things first. Angela of Foligna: "Make of yourself a capacity and I will make myself a torrent!" ![]()
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