God Is Love

Not understanding the significance of the truth that "God is love" is a reason for accusations against God our Father that pits Him as mean, unloving and revengeful. If our biological father did half of what is attributed to God He would find himself on death row!

The truth that "God is love" is not just a trite religious saying. Most believers believe that "God is love", then they "BUT" it. Yea God is love, BUT, God also hates, is revengeful, is wrathful and punishes people for doing wrong.

God's love isn't something we can work to earn or achieve. How many times have you heard someone say, "I'm just a poor old sinner, saved by grace" subjected to making many mistakes? If we are Born Again through the Blood of Jesus, God said we're holy and without blame before Him in love and our mistakes does not make Him love us less.

Consider John 3:16. Every believer can quote this verse from memory, "For God so loved the world...". Note "...SO loved the world...He didn't just love us, he *SO* loved us; so much that He gave His Son. Now where it says "...the world..." replace it with "people of the world". "For God SO LOVED PEOPLE that He gave..." He so loved ALL people He gave...He so loved you as a sinner He gave

We mar God's character by painting Him as a mean old taskmaster watching for us to sin a sin so He can punish us for it.

Every GOOD and PERFECT gift cometh from above, from the Father of lights in Whom there is no variableness or shadow of turning. We have nothing to fear from God because He loves us!

When the Scriptures say, "God is love," they aren't telling us that God is some nebulous, warm fuzzy feeling of love. The writers who penned the scriptures weren't saying that in our limited form of human love we will find God. Not at all...in fact, when we read that God is love it means that God defines love. And when we say that God defines love, it don't mean that He defines it the way human's love, for convenience purposes...it means that God is the very definition of love itself. There is no such thing as love without God. As hard as we might try, we cannot define love outside of knowing God. This essentially means that our human definition of love is false, if it were true love there would be no such thing as divorce or hate because of falling out of love. 

God is the Creator of all things, and by His very nature, He is love. God love is unconditional, unfathomable, unending, unmeasurable and NEVER FAILS, and it's not based on feelings; therefore, love is not an "intense affection… based on familial or personal association". To understand what true love is and to be able to truly love others, we must know God, and we can do this through a close personal relationship with Him. We can have that close relationship with God by putting our faith in Jesus Christ, who was God's sacrifice of love for us.

God's love is summed up in this passage of scripture: "Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loves is born of God, and knows God. He that loves not knows not God; for God is love. In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him...(Whoa there, did I read that right!...didn't God send His Son into the world so we would escape Hell and gain heaven? You really mean the reason He came was to live through me...come on now!) Herein is love, not that we 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 ought also to love one another" (1 John 4:7-11). 

If you want to know this love...true love...get to know God. He is ready to pour out His love on you, and He wants you to love others as He loves you.