John 3: 16-18 Analysis

As I meditate on 1 John 3:16-18 the central principle I feel shown is that sacrificial love is a love of action. The author is John, son of Zebedee who is one of the original twelve apostles. He wrote this letter to believers who struggled with false teachers trying to teach them in ways that were not what Jesus taught His followers. John needed to remind them that love, as shown to us by Christ, should spur the believer into action. Jesus so loved all that He became the final sacrifice for sin. In doing so, He demonstrated a genuine meaning of sacrificial love and the action it should inspire in believers.
Scripture is rich with examples of love moving a believer to action. Typically, the biblical author expressed this action as helping the needy. From the Old Testament to …show more content…
Many years ago God placed a family on my heart. The sons of the family were members of a Boy Scout troop in which I was one of the adult leaders. This family contained only a single parent, the two boys, and a younger girl. This girl became ill and needed hospitalization. The doctors discovered breathing problems which the family found were due to the exposed horsehair plaster in her bedroom. Her room had holes in her ceiling exposing beams on the roof and causing her issues. The apartment they were living in was all they could afford. So with the permission of the landlord, a team of people and I renovated her bedroom removing all of the plaster and putting up sheetrock. All construction materials and time came from the team out of love for this family. Everyone gave of what they had so this girl, now a married woman with children of her own could have a healthier environment in which to grow up. While the landlord did not help with the cost of the repairs or in the renovating of the girl's room, even he gave by freezing their rent amount for the remaining five years they were in the apartment before finally moving somewhere