Volume 1, Issue 4 Page 11
Sharing the LOVE of God
Have you ever read 1 John 1:1-4? This is the love of God in a Christian’ s heart towards the lost! When I read it, I read it aloud because the Lord has enabled me to see and hear the enthusiasm in their voices and it helps me to feel it, and to catch it in my heart too! I share about the Father all the time and this is what I want to recapture, this is what I want to convey to others. I share about sin a lot and the need to repent, but I also want people to see what they are being saved into.
I can picture them gathered around together with a few other believers and talking to a few unbelievers. In verse one John is excitedly saying that Jesus is from the beginning of time, that He is God, that He’ s always been around and that he( John) has seen Him with his own eyes and touched Him with his own hands, and that He is Life! He continues by looking these unbelievers in the eyes and saying with a glad heart that the Life which is in God has been made into a man, and that he has actually seen Him!
Ken Reynolds Birmingham, Alabama ken _ reynolds @ live. com
The apostle is testifying,“ Look guys; you’ ve heard about God, right? You believe in God, right? Well, I’ m telling you and you gotta believe me, I’ ve seen Him! Yeah, I know how it sounds, but I’ ve seen Him, touched Him, walked with Him, listened to Him and learned from Him! God the Father has made Himself manifest to us! Not only that, but we’ re telling you all of this so that YOU, TOO can share in this fellowship that we have with Him!!! Isn’ t this wonderful? Yes, we have fellowship with the Father and with His Son Jesus Christ! I know it seems too awesome to believe, but it’ s true! And the reason we’ re excited and telling you about this is so you too can join in on this! And we want our joy to be full and complete. If we keep what we have to ourselves, it’ s just not right and we want it to be full. And that’ s gotta include you!”
“ but we’ re telling you all of this so that YOU, TOO can share in this fellowship that we have with Him!!!”
Are you catching the excitement in these words? Can you imagine being there? I hope so. If you’ re not a believer, get in on this. It’ s life-changing and life-saving! If you are a believer, ask God to kindle in you this fervor so that you can be a laborer in the harvest- an answer to Jesus’ prayer. God Bless you-- Ken