Sunday Devotions: Love's Conquest

1 John 5, John 15

I wonder what a Roman emperor would have made of today’s epistle reading:

For the love of God is this, that we obey his commandments. And his commandments are not burdensome, for whatever is born of God conquers the world. And this is the victory that conquers the world, our faith. Who is it that conquers the world but the one who believes that Jesus is …