The God we serve is one of love and love is His true nature. 1 John 4:8, – “He that loveth not knoweth not God; For God is love.”
1 Corinthians 13 describes what love is and that is exactly who God is! God is patient, God is kind, God rejoices in the truth, and more good things! Sadly many people today do not see God as love but as angry and full of judgement but that is not the true nature of God. We hear from people we need to be perfect and keep the commandments and focus on how we need to be “good enough” for God to accept us but that’s not true.
Many people are self-centered and keep looking at their sin thinking that the guilt will make them change instead of what God has done. God has done away with sin and reconciled us to Himself to us through Jesus. (2 Cor. 5:17-18, Col 1:19-20) Now looking at 1 John 4:8 we read that we can’t love if we don’t know God so how do we love? We get to know God but where to start? Let’s read,