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Heavenly Family Traits
I will walk in you and be your God Leviticus 6:12
Love
1John 4:7
Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. (click for context)
The birthing of love
The birth of God's love in a sinner stems from God's truth received by faith---purifying the soul with Christ's blood and quickening the soul with the Holy Spirit by which we cry "Abba, father":
Since you have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit in sincere love of the brethren (the initial family love, or brotherly love of an infant), love one another fervently (the Greek word: 'to stretch out') with a pure heart, having been born again, not of corruptible seed but incorruptible, through the word of God which lives and abides forever. 1Peter 1: 22-23
Love and knowledge
As our physical bodies are built up and maintained with food, so God's words are the building blocks of His knowledge which permeates our soul by the indwelling Spirit
I thank my God upon every remembrance of you always in every prayer of mine making request for you all with joy, for your fellowship in the gospel from the first day until now being confident of this very thing, that He who has begun a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ...And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in knowledge and all discernment...Let each of you look out not only for his own interests, but also for the interests of others. Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus. Phil.1:3-6,9, 2:4-5
Love vessels
Believers cannot produce love within ourselves. True love can only come from God. and we can only be vessels of love as we abide in His word:
Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can you, except you abide in me. I am the vine, you are the branches: He that abides in me, and I in him, the same brings forth much fruit: for without me you can do nothing. If you keep my commandments, you shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love...This is my commandment, That you love one another, as I have loved you. John 15:4-5, 10,12