The passage today is 1 John 4.7-16.
This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins.
God shows his love not just with words or gifts or power, but by coming into the world, sacrificing himself for us. It’s such a good reminder that the primary thing we have to offer the world is ourselves, poured out in love. A readiness to sacrifice for the sake of another – this is real love.
Jesus came that we might live through him. “I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full.” (John 10.10) Where does this life come from? 1 John 4 v.12: God lives in us; v.13: We live in him and he in us; v.15: God lives in him and he in us; v.16: Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in him. This abundant, eternal life comes from God, out of our shared life in Christ – this ‘mutual indwelling’. He in us and us in him. In Christ humanity is irrevocably entangled with the divine. What an amazing thing to get our heads round!