Biweekly Devotional 2-17-2026
Published by Pastor Harry Zuraski in Biweekly Devotional · Tuesday 17 Feb 2026 · 1:30
Tags: Biweekly, Devotional
Tags: Biweekly, Devotional
1 John 4:19 – 20
19 We love because he first loved us. 20 Whoever claims to love God yet hates a brother or sister is a liar. For whoever does not love their brother and sister, whom they have seen, cannot love God, whom they have not seen. 21 And he has given us this command: Anyone who loves God must also love their brother and sister.
Love, Love, Love, the very thing that is commanded by God for all to do. To love God and to love our brothers and sisters. That word love is used 46 times in 1 John 4 alone and as many times as 645 times (New Living Translation) in the New Testament. But just like anything else it is not enough to say the words if they are not put into deeds. There are many today that claim to love God yet express hate for others. When this is done we are not living as God has commanded.
We find ourselves struggling to love our brothers and sisters. We need to remind ourselves of the term “imago Dei” Image of God. This is how we were all created and how God sees us all. We then must work towards seeing all in the image by which they were created, not the image the world projects them to be. In doing this we can then work towards our own sanctification while modelling God’s love for those that might need to see it most.
