1John 4:16-17 "We know it so well, we've embraced it heart and soul, this love that comes from God. God is love. When we take up permanent residence in a life of love, we live in God and God lives in us. This way, love has the run of the house, becomes at home and mature in us, so that we're free of worry on Judgment Day--our standing in the world is identical with Christ's."

There is no room in love for fear. Well-formed love banishes fear. Since fear is crippling, a fearful life--fear of death, fear of judgment--is one not yet fully formed in love. We, though, are going to love--love and be loved. First we were loved, now we love. He loved us first. If anyone boasts, "I love God," and goes right on hating his brother or sister, thinking nothing of it, he is a liar. If he won't love the person he can see, how can he love the God he can't see?

When we let God take over our life we will start to live a life of love. If our heart is always open to love everyone then we keep our heart and life open for God to live in us. We can't do the one without the other automatically happening. God is the Creator of love. God showed us perfect love by coming to die for us. God and love are bundled up in one package. If we have one, we will have the other.

Then, if we let God and love rule our lives, we have no reason to fear. We have no reason to fear judgment and we have no reason to fear anyone else. It doesn't matter what anyone might do, we are safely tucked in the arms of God and we know that whatever happens, wewill one day be in Heaven. These bodies we have are just temporary bodies. We will have new ones in Heaven. This earth, as it is now, is only temporary. There is nothing on this earth worth hanging on to and worrying over. It will all be burned up and wiped away in the end and a new earth will be in it's place. The minute fear and worry hits, the first thing a person needs to do is start praying. If someone is causing us to worry, that's the time to pray for help to see them the way God sees them and to love them as God loves them.

If we say we love God and then retaliate or seek revenge against someone, we are a liar. That's not just my words. The Bible says it. We can't hate another or strike out at another if we love God. When we love someone, we don't want to do anything that would hurt them. When we hate someone, we are hating someone that God dearly loves, and we are disappointing God with our actions. Notice the Bible also points out that if we can't love someone we can see, how can we love someone we can't see? So if we cannot show love to those we around us that we can see, then we don't have the kind of love that can love Someone we cannot see. Love and God come in one package. We can't have one and not have the other.

God's love for us is forever. Nothing can separate us from His love. Take a look at Romans 8:38-39 “For I am persuaded that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor rulers, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus, our Lord.” Paul is trying to make sure he gets everything in this list. He's trying to say that there isn't anything, not even death or angels, that can separate us from God's love. When God is in our life we have His love and can love others. We have nothing to worry about, nothing to fear. There is nothing that can separate us from that love. No one can take away our eternal life with God and that's all that counts. This life and this earth is temporary. They're not worth worrying over or fighting about. A better one is waiting for us when God comes to bring us home.