1John 4:7 - Love Distributors: Lovely, loving, beloved people of love

"Beloved, may we be loving one another, since the love out of God is, and everyone loving out of God has been begotten and is knowing God."

-Beloved, he says.  This works on several levels.  You are loved by God, by the God Who so loves.  He made you, and saved you, and has blessed you.  You are so loved.  But you are His new creation, His handiwork, a work of love, and you are part of this community of love.  You have been brought into this forever family of everlastingly loved people who should be, ought to be expressing this divine love to one another.  In here, you are loved, and you should get love.  May it be so, John says.  May we be loving one another like the beloved people of love that we are.  And what’s more, the reason I am saying this is that I love you too, John says.  I care, and I care too much in fact to not urge you all on towards love, towards the greatest of these and the ultimate goal of all our instruction (1Corinthians 13.13, 1Timothy 1.5).  All our lessons and sermonizing and efforts and strategies and programs and mission statements ought to wind up here.

-Because God makes love.  He begets love.  That’s exactly what John says here.  Love is from God.  He loves - it’s what He do.  He exudes it from every fiber of His infinite being.  It comes out of Him like an artesian well, spilling over into all the world, all the universe.  And it is what we ought also do...

-So then - know love, know God.  That’s what he’s saying.  If you would know love, go straight to the Source.  The Divine Love Maker Himself.  A veritable Love Factory.  But you should also be able to go to His love distributors, to those He has begoten, those He has made, or rather remade in His image, in whom He has worked a spiritual rebirth and in whom He has caused His Spirit of love to dwell.  You should be able to go to them, and see and get love.  May we, as His love distributors, become extra good at this, at loving one another.  Employees of the month - every day, every week.  How are we doing at loving one another?  This is where it starts, and where it should end up.