Day 20:  About Love

From Touching the Clouds: Encouraging Stories to Make Your Faith Soar

Love expresses the very nature of God. It should also characterize God’s children in our attitudes toward one another. Agape andagapao, the Greek words for love in the New Testament, are used to explain the attitude of God toward His Son, the human race in general, and particularly those who believe in the Lord Jesus Christ.

“Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love” (I John 4: 7-8 NIV).

Love is the attribute of God that is sometimes the most difficult to reconcile in our finite human understanding. We look at tragedies and ask, If God is a God of love, why did He let this terrible thing happen? God—how could You? We look at people we don’t like and ask, How can I love him? How can I love her? And yet our definition of love is so limited that we fail to see the whole picture of who God is and what He has done.

God demonstrated His love. “This is love: not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins” (I John 4: 9-10 NIV).