Dwelling in Love

1 John 4:16-17
“And we have known and believed the love that God has to us. God is love. He that dwells in love dwells in God, and God in him. Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment because as He is so are we in this world.”

“Like God, we must see others as souls. We must see their need and their sorry plight. We must see them as victims of sin and Satan. There would not have been a single Christian if this were not true of God. He looked upon us, and did not see us. He saw, rather, our captivity to Satan. He saw us in the bondage of iniquity. And as He is, so must we be if He is in us. Having looked upon others, in all their offensiveness and difficulty, we see them as lost souls, as the serfs of Satan, as the victims of evil powers and wickedness. We are sorry for them. Compassion must enter our hearts for them.”