Keeping God’s Love in You Alive and Active

“Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.”
1 John 4:11

Can we talk heart to heart for a moment?

If you’ve experienced God’s love—the kind that picked you up when no one else would, the kind that held you together when you should’ve fallen apart—you know it’s not something you can keep to yourself. It’s too real. Too powerful. Too healing.

God’s love doesn’t just sit still in your life—it moves. It shows up. It acts.

It’s the kind of love that:

• Forgives when you have every reason to walk away.
• Speaks life when others are throwing daggers.
• Gives when it would be easier to protect and hoard.
• Prays when you could be gossiping.
• Stays when others run.

When Christ lives in you, love isn’t a feeling… it is so much more than that. It becomes a powerful force. His Spirit produces fruit in you (read Galatians 5:22), and the first one is love. Real love. The kind that moves and breathes.

You were never meant to just receive His love. You were meant to reflect it—especially in a world that’s starving for something genuine.

So… what does God’s love look like in you today?

It might look like grace instead of a harsh word.
It might look like listening instead of interrupting.
It might look like a meal, a ride, a message, a hug.
It might look like mercy, even and especially when they don’t deserve it.

The kind of love that saved you—now flows through you. Give that love permission.

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1. God’s love is the model: “In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son…” (1 John 4:10)
   Your love for others isn’t about what they deserve. It’s about reflecting what you received when you didn’t deserve it.
2. Love is not optional—it’s the evidence of God in us: “He who does not love does not know God, for God is love.” (1 John 4:8)
   You don’t “act” loving to prove you’re a Christian—you are loving because Christ lives in you.
3. Love takes action, it’s not just words: “Let us not love in word or in tongue, but in deed and in truth.” (1 John 3:18)
   People will feel God’s love when you show it, not when you say it.
4. The Holy Spirit empowers this kind of love: “Now hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts by the Holy Spirit…” (Romans 5:5)
   You don’t have to manufacture this love. It’s already been poured out. Your job is to yield to it.

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Introspective Questions:

1. Who in your life right now needs to see God’s love through your actions?
2. Have you been withholding love because someone doesn’t “deserve” it?
3. Are there moments you’ve felt the Holy Spirit nudge you to show love, but you hesitated?
4. What kind of love have you most received from God? Who needs that same kind from you?
5. Is your love for others convenient, or is it costly—like Christ’s love?

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Prayer:

Abba Father,
Your love rescued me when I was at my worst. It’s more than I can understand—and more than I could ever deserve. Fill me fresh today with Your love. Not just for comfort, but so I can give it away. Let my words, my tone, my choices, and my actions reflect and honor Jesus. Empower me, Holy Spirit, to show Your love even when it’s hard or seems impossible. Let someone experience You through me today.
In Jesus’ name, Amen.

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Today’s Goal:

Let love lead.
In one conversation, one decision, or one moment today—let God’s love in you become love in action. Be the proof that He’s real.