Today's Devotion: John 4:10 (New International Version) - This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for[a] our sins.

John is talking about the love of God, one of his favorite subjects. Essentially the message is similar to John 3:16, but this serves as an explanation for the Gospel passage.

Today's Comments: Putting the passages from John 3:16 together with passage from 1John 3:16 yields the following results:

John 3:16 - For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son,[a] that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.
1 John 3:16 - This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers.

Isn't that interesting?