Within Love: 1 John 4:7-12

Neville's Inner Vision

Love, in this light, is not something you do so much as the condition in which you live. The 'I' that loves is the I AM, the awareness that thinks and feels. When the text says, Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God, it is declaring a state-identity: love is God inhabiting your consciousness and expressing as your life. To know God is to know that you are the vessel through which love is manifested. God sent his Son into the world so that we might live through him—this is the inner movement of awareness, the renewal of perception so that life becomes love expressed. Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that God loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins—meaning forgiveness is the releasing of stories that separate you from your true self. Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another. When you love, you are not merely feeling kindness; you are allowing God to dwell in you. If you practice this daily, his love is perfected in you, healing fear and revealing your true nature.