1 John 4:19 Love Casts Out Fear

God tells me that He is continually showing me how to love more perfectly.  I John 4:19 says that perfect love casts out fear.  It expels fears.  My faith increases as my knowledge of God and His Word grow and my relationship with Him strengthens.  As my faith grows my ability to love becomes more perfect and is a measurement of who I am and how I treat others.  Others can see God’s love in me.  The closer I am to God and the more I love, the less I fear.  I see that faith and fear are opposites and proportionate to each other.  As faith increases, fear decreases.  Without faith, hope, and purpose one tends to live in fear.

John was Jesus’ most beloved disciple.  He knew and lived in Christ’s love.  He tells us about his experience and Christ’s teaching in the book of 1 John.  It is a book of 5 short chapters filled with teachings on the love of God in his life and in our lives.  Read it, God will speak to your heart.  Chapter 5 concludes in verse 13, “I write this to you who believe in the Son of God, so that you MAY KNOW you have eternal life”.  I have always loved the assurance of this verse.  I do not have to say, “I think I am going to heaven when I leave my earthly existence; when my body dies”.  I believe what the Word tells me.  I KNOW that I will be with my Savior and those I love when I enter eternity.  It is God’s promise to all who believe.  Choose to believe, take God’s promise for yourself, and be certain of the assurance of your eternal life in Christ.  I do not fear death because God’s perfect love casts out my fears.