Love at Home

One of the most important truths of Scripture is that “God is love” (1 John 4:8, 16). Unselfish love is the foundation not only of His character but of the universe. God created everything, whether animate or inanimate, to give of itself unselfishly for the benefit of someone or something else.

When Adam and Eve fell, everything changed. Every one of us has inherited a selfish nature that wars against God’s original plan for His creation. Only through the hope of salvation can we now be “partakers of the divine nature” (2 Peter 1:4). The born-again Christian, though living on earth, can still experience the love of heaven when Christ dwells in the heart. And when every member of the family is humble and striving to be like Jesus, the home can be a foretaste of heaven. It can model the glorious truth that “God is love.”