Perfect love - understand and be free
There is no fear in love: true love has no room for fear, because where fear is, there is pain; and he who is not free from fear is not complete in love. - 1 Jn 4:18 (BBE) I was pondering this earlier today as we all know perfect love casts off all fear. So to be rid of fear, one needs to be complete in love. But how? First we need to know what Perfect Love is to be able to answer the above question. If we do not know what perfect love is, we cannot understand what it means to be or not be complete in it. So I looked at earlier quotes from 1 John - 1Jn 4:7 My loved ones, let us have love for one another: because love is of God, and everyone who has love is a child of God and has knowledge of God. 1Jn 4:8 He who has no love has no knowledge of God, because God is love. 1Jn 4:9 And the love of God was made clear to us when he sent his only Son into the world so that we might have life through him. 1Jn 4:10 And this is love, not that we had love for God, but that he had love for us, a...