Look at it, creation was an act of Love. God made us to be in a relationship with him, he made us in order that we could love him, and receive love from him. He created us to love each other, for us to be able to give love out and to receive it in return.
We look at the way God interacts with us, and it is all an act of love. The Bible, it isn't a book of rules for how we are to live life to appease an angry God of wrath so he doesn't smite us. Rather, it is a love letter written from the heart of a loving father to his precious and beloved children. It communicates to them his desires for the best life.
The cross, is the greatest act of love. We look at God himself coming to earth in the form of a man, in order to live a perfect life only to die on a cross, taking the full weight of sin upon himself, taking the punishment we deserved upon himself, in order that we can have eternal life. He did it so we don't have to.
God gave us life, he gave us scripture, he gave us salvation, and through salvation he offers us eternal life, but all of these are meaningless without the ability and capacity to love.
Life with out love amounts to nothing.
"If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but do not have love, I have become a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. And if I give all my possessions to feed the poor, and if I surrender my body to be burned, but do not have love, it profits me nothing....But now faith, hope, love, abide these three; but the greatest of these is love. "
1 Corinthians 13.1-3, 13
Life with no love, is pointless. The bible with no love, is worthless. The Cross with no love, is meaningless. God with no love, is impossible.
Here is the most incredible part. The ability to love, to give it an receive it, is the ability to give and receive God himself.
Here is the most incredible part. The ability to love, to give it an receive it, is the ability to give and receive God himself.
"Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. The one who does not love does not know God, for God is love. By this the love of God was manifested in us, that God has sent His only begotten Son into the world so that we might live through Him. In this 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 also ought to love one another. No one has seen God at any time; if we love one another, God abides in us, and His love is perfected in us."
1 John 4.7-12
God IS love. In giving us the ability to love, God gives us the ability to comprehend part of who he is. Love is how we share him, love is how we show him. Love is who he is. I wish I had the words to fully explain this, but my feeble attempt will have to do.
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