Random acts of kindness

I've had a bit of a blah week but have been very thankful to God for the way that he has used other Christian brothers and sisters to encourage me.

From the generosity of a house guest in stocking the fridge full of gluten free food before she left, including a number of home cooked meals in the freezer and some home made icecream to passing conversations and lovely emails from people encouraging me to keep up the good work at The Bible Talks.

It is a great testimony to our gracious Father's love and care for his people and a reminder of the way that he works in and through us to achieve his purposes. I've seen God's love in action as his people having lovingly and self-sacrificially loved me.

It's 1 John 4:7-12 in action:

Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God. Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love. In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him. In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. 12 No one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God abides in us and his love is perfected in us.