Moment of Meditation: God's Stewards Are Loved and Loving (1 John 4:11, 19)

Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.
We love because he first loved us.
(1 John 4:11, 19)

God's Stewards are Loved and Loving

God's stewards recognize that their stewardship flows out of God's act of love for them in Christ, which empowers them in turn, to love others in acts of Christ-like love.

Your stewardship is a gift from your loving God. Everything that you have been given in this life is because God loves you. Therefore, the best use of your earthly possessions is to distribute them among other people. This is truly showing love to our neighbors.

It's not a love that tries to earn favor from God. It's a love that comes because we have been shown favor by God. As St. John so succinctly puts it, "We love because He first loved us" (1 John 4:19).

This is why St. Paul can say, "Love does no wrong to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfilling of the Law" (Romans 13:10). The basic Law that surrounds our life is to love our neighbor as ourselves with everything we have. Amen.