God's Love

God’s Love
1 John 4.7-21

Statistics aren’t everything, but sometimes they are quite revealing. The word ‘love’, or some form of it, occurs no fewer than twenty-seven times in these fifteen verses. No need to ask, then what the subject-matter is here. In fact, we seem to be at the very heart of the letter. This is what John most wants to say. Everything that has gone before leads up to this; everything that follows, in the final chapter, solidifies it and rounds it off. ‘Love’ is what John has on his mind...

Taken from Early Christian Letters For Everyone by Tom Wright