Episode 66: It’s all part of the plan
Download MP3John has already told his readers that when they love one another, God’s love is being “made complete” in them (1 John 4:12), an idea that he repeats a few verses later. Jesus himself taught that the whole moral teaching of the Old Testament, boiled down to its essence, was to love God and neighbor wholeheartedly. To say that love is being made complete is to say that we’re growing up, maturing. And that, it seems, was the plan all along.
John has already told his readers that when they love one another, God’s love is being “made complete” in them (1 John 4:12), an idea that he repeats a few verses later. Jesus himself taught that the whole moral teaching of the Old Testament, boiled down to its essence, was to love God and neighbor wholeheartedly. To say that love is being made complete is to say that we’re growing up, maturing. And that, it seems, was the plan all along.
