God is Love

God loves us simply because He is love!  It’s only through a personal encounter with God that we can experience true unconditional love.  We must understand and remember that God does not love us because we are so lovable or that we deserve to be loved.  God sent His only Son to take away our sins.  That is real love!  He now reaches down into our sin-filled lives with His unconditional love and draws us to Himself.  He tears down our guilt and strips away our shame and loves us just the way we are and simply because He is love.

“But anyone who does not love…does not know God — for God is love.  God showed how much he loved us by sending his only Son into the world so that we might have eternal life through him.  This is real love.  It is not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as a sacrifice to take away our sins.”  (1 John 4:8-10 NLT)