God is Love ?

  

What does it mean that God is love?

 

 

 The phrase "God is love" means that God is, in His very nature, infinitely loving and gracious.

 

 God's loving nature is revealed in His saving acts for His people. God's love involves doing what is best for those He loves, which sometimes may not seem loving to us on the surface. God's love does not mean that He shields us from all harm, gives us all we want or never disciplines us. But it does mean that everything God does in our earthly lives is an expression of His love for us and is working toward our eternal happiness and glory.

The gifting of His Son demonstrates his infinite love to pay for the incalculable debt that we, humankind, could not pay to this holy God. We cannot rescue ourselves from the evil works of darkness we collectively committed. If we could recognise that our world was steeped in black, deadly darkness we would not be able to do anything about it!   Jesus Christ died for us to free all from our complete slavery and subjection to our dark desires, our evil selves and total depravity. The living Son of God set us free from ourselves, saving all humanity from certain death and eternal separation from all that is good. So sending all of us on a course to eternal life instead.