1 John 4:19 No greater love exists!

 1 John 4:10

In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins. 

God so loved the world that He gave up His life for us. No greater love exists. Because of the sacrifice of Jesus, all God but yet all man, we are free to love others the way that God loves us. Carla

1 John 4:19

We love Him because He first loved us. (NKJV)

First John as a whole is clearly founded on the doctrine of the Trinity. From evidence throughout Scripture (Matthew 28:19), it is clear that God is both one and three. God the Father, God the Son, and God the Spirit are one God, but they are also distinct Persons of the Godhead. Throughout his first epistle, John illustrates how each Person of the Godhead works with and through the others to accomplish God’s plan of salvation for us. The NKJV Study Bible

God demonstrates “first loved us” by offering salvation through Jesus. Faithlife Study  Bible

2 Thessalonians 2:13

But we are bound to give thanks to God always for you, brethren beloved by the Lord, because God from the beginning chose you for salvation through sanctification by the Spirit and belief in the truth,

My friends, no one of us is on this journey alone. And we need one another not only for care and comfort, but to pick up the pieces, and find ways to create spaces in our world, that will not belittle, or diminish, or demean. After all, we are hearts that touch. Which may sound too sentimental in a real and fractured world; a world where hearts touch and hearts hurt, hearts hope and hearts break, hearts heal and hearts splinter… and; from those splintered places hearts that give again, and again. Sabbath Moments