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1 John 4:19 (Growing Closer to God)

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What does 1 John 4:19 teach us about God’s love and how we can love Him back?

Growing Closer to God

1 John 4:19, Photo by Szabó Viktor from Pexels

We love

 because He first loved us.

1 John 4:19

God loved us with divine love before we even knew Him. Yet, how can we love someone we do not know very well? When we spend time with God in prayer, we will come to know His holy love. As we grow closer to God, we become better at loving Him back. (March 13, 2021)

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CREDITS

The LOGO image of Our Lady of Grace is original artwork by Martin Lariviere in 2009. We have the artist’s permission (my son). It is our exclusive trademark logo image.

Raphael painted The Sistine Madonna circa (1513-1514). We made circular cut-outs from the original image.

Bible verses are from the Revised Standard Version, Catholic Edition.

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A beautifully photographed sky by Donald Tong inspired the website’s colour scheme. Cropped portions of it are the background for the footer Bible verse. He shared it as a free download on pexels.com.

Szabo Viktor photographed the majestic sky with sunset colours in the clouds.

For those interested in using the Bible image, we are sharing it as a free, public-domain image.  To download the full size, we linked it here: Cathopic is an online source for free Catholic images.  Once you create an account with them, you can use their photos (no credit needed) as part of a free trial.  There are only a few restrictions, outlined in their Terms of Use.

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IN REVIEW
What is 1 John 4:19?

We love because He first loved us.

What does it mean to love God?

God loved us with divine love before we even knew Him.  Yet how can we love someone we do not know very well?  

 

When we spend time with God in prayer, we will come to know His holy love.  As we grow closer to God, we become better at loving Him back.

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