Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.

1 John 4:11

The thing about godliness as an aspiration for Christians is that it’s not a quality description as much as it is a category description. We don’t have to love on the same level as God —impossible— but we do have to love in a way that imitates God. This clarification can help us avoid excuses. You can’t love like God in his eternal, flawless, boundless capacity but you can love like God loves. Forgiving, generously and without any selfish desire attached.

Ethan Kirl