The word, “love,” is mentioned forty-two times in the First Epistle of John. The writer, being inspired by the Holy Spirit, is making sure we understand the significance of love in the Christian walk.
The person without love is as blind as the fish with no eyes in the depths of the darkness of Mammoth Cave.
Several years ago a friend who worked in an underground coal mine, took another friend and me about a mile underground. He stopped and turned off the lights of our transport. Then he asked, “Could you find your way out with no lights?” Our answer was, “Of course not. There is no telling what we might stumble over.” That is a picture of the darkness surrounding the person who doesn’t love others.
Jesus is the “Light of the World.” When you have Jesus living inside, you do not stumble in darkness.”
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