What love is

Some of the biggest mistakes that people make in their lives are made because of what they think is “love”.

Today’s first reading (1 John 4:7-10) reminds us of what love REALLY is.

Beloved,
let us love one another,
because love is of God;
everyone who loves
is begotten by God
and knows God.

Whoever is without love
does not know God,
for God is love.

In this way the love of God was revealed to us:
God sent his only-begotten Son into the world
so that we might have life through him.

In this is love:
not that we have loved God,
but that he loved us
and sent his Son as expiation for our sins.