If you make your home in love, you live in Me and I live in you.

1 John 4:16

We  know and have believed the love which God has for us.
God is love, and  he who remains in love remains in God,
and God remains in him.

The   WEB Bible says that if we remain in  love, we remain in God. We could   also translate this to mean that if we    make our home in love, we  make   our home in God …for God is love.  Think   about this image for a   second. If love were a house, your Heavenly Father would give you   complete run of the place! You could go  to the   refrigerator any time  you like…kick off your shoes in the  living room   and lie on the   couch… etc.

If love were a house,  then it would stand to   reason that our Father would   want us to be  comfortable living there.  But my question is… Are we   comfortable  living in love? Are we   comfortable with the intimacy and   vulnerability  that comes with   living in love? For many of us, even the   word ‘love’  might have a   broken meaning. For us to learn to be   comfortable living  in love, God   will have to redeem our understanding of   what love is.

In 1 Corinthians 13:4-8, we read the Apostle Paul’s description of love…
4    Love is patient and is kind; love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is    not proud, 5 doesn’t behave itself inappropriately, doesn’t seek its   own  way, is not provoked, takes no account of evil; 6 doesn’t rejoice   in  unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; 7 bears all things,    believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. 8 Love never    fails. But where there are prophecies, they will be done away with.    Where there are various languages, they will cease. Where there is    knowledge, it will be done away with. (WEB)

For  us to be    able to comprehend the kind of love that comes directly from   God    Himself, we need to be comfortable on the receiving end of love. In  1     John 4:19, the Bible says that 'we love because He first loved us’. If   you want to learn how to be comfortable living in the house of   God’s    love, ask Him to teach you how to receive love from Him every   day.

The    more that we are able to receive our Father’s love,   the more that  we   will be comfortable making our home living in love.   As we live in  the   love that God has for us, others will see it’s   impact on our  lives and   want to live there too!