Perfect Love Casts Our Fear! 1 John 4:18

Have you ever gone to the grocery store on an empty stomach?   You’re a sitting duck. You buy everything you don’t need. Doesn’t matter if it’s good for you—you just want to fill your tummy. When you’re lonely, you do the same in life, pulling stuff off the shelf, not because you need it, but because you are hungry for love.
Why do we do it? Because we fear facing life alone. For fear of not fitting in, we take the drugs. For fear of standing out, we wear the clothes. For fear of appearing small, we go into debt and buy the house. For fear of going unnoticed, we dress to seduce or to impress. For fear of sleeping alone, we sleep with anyone. For fear of not being loved, we search for love in all the wrong places.
But all that changes when we discover God’s perfect love. And “perfect love casts our fear.”

John 3:16: “For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. 19:  This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but men loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil. 20:  Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that his deeds will be exposed. 21:  But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what he has done has been done through God.”

Donna, 1 John 4:18


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