As we continue our week exploring the simple principles of the Christian faith, today let's look at what it means to love people.

Many of us know that God ask us to love others, but often loving people is easier said than done. God knows our weaknesses,

and any command he gives, he has a plan to empower us and give us grace to be obedient.

As you explore how God may want you to love people today, may your heart be open to his profound grace.

Welcome to the First 15 podcast. As we step into a deeper abundance of relationship with our

Heavenly Father, our hearts will naturally burn to love people as He has loved us.

Loving people was never a chore for Jesus. He loved those around Him with the fiery passion of His Father,

and God calls you and me to do the same. 1. John 4.9 through 12 says,

In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only son into the world

so that we might live through Him. And this is love, not that we have loved God, but that He

has loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins.

Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. No one has ever seen God.

If we love one another, God abides in us, and His love is perfected in us. God's love,

perfected in you, will be demonstrated in the way you love others.

Allow that fact to rest in your heart for a minute.

Allow scripture to establish in you the core values of selfless love.

I used to think that the highest form of Christian spirituality would be surrendering all

forms of pleasure and human contact in order to devote my entire life to relationship

with God.

But Scripture is clear that God desires to produce in us passionate fruit and love for everyone

around us. We demonstrate the depth of our love for Him through the depth of our love for others.

Christianity is not a religion of cliques, comfort zones, or isolation.

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