Today’s verse tells us the origin of Christian love.

John encourages us to love each other since love comes from God.

The person who refuses to love doesn’t know the first thing about God because God is love. In other words: you can’t know Him if you don’t love. Likewise, you really don’t know how to love if you don’t know God.

This may sound like strange circular reasoning, but it’s true. Since true love comes from God, only those who have a real relationship with Him can feel and share real love. Only then can they display real love and share it in the Christian sense of the word.

Do you want to know and share real love? It is possible when you accept Jesus as your Savior. He demonstrated His love for us when He died on the cross for our sins.

His love for you will never change — yet it will change your life completely, making it one filled with joy, no matter what is going on around you.