God Is Love
1 John 4:8, which says:
"Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love."
This passage of the Bible brings to light who God is, and it further helps us identify those who know Him. Knowing God is beyond the activities religious people do; knowing God is living in the image of Him. Most of Jesus' ministry was centered on love (which is God). He went about doing good, healing the sick, and mending broken hearts. Those who were rejected and cast out he drew closer to himself, and that's because the one message he came to preach was love, which in itself is God.
You can't hate another and claim that God lives in you. You can't wish another evil and confess that you know God. The attribute of love is stated in 1 Corinthians 13, a nature that every believer should put on. God is love, and all that he demands in his sons and daughters is to live in this nature of love, because that's the only way we can show that we know him and he is our father whose nature we have taken. You take the nature of who you call a father.
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Imagine your child acting dull and unintelligent in areas where you're wise and intelligent. Or a son who's lazy when the father is known to be hardworking. People would doubt his paternity simply by comparing their characters, that's because they expect to see some similarities in them and not the other way around. To become sons and daughters of God and an ambassador of our heavenly father, we must take up his nature, a signature that speaks even when you're silent. God is love, and whoever claims to know him must live in this nature of love. We should be a replica of him whom we represent and make a difference.
