"God is love." (1 John 4: 8).
My friends, what does it mean to say that God is love? It is like saying "The sun is shining. There is light." Of course there will be light if the sun is shining. God's love suffuses everything. It penetrates all His creation. Genesis teaches us that after God created the world, He reviewed the work of His hand and sees that it is good and He loves it.
Original Sin damaged our ability to love and receive love.
We needed a re-education in other to understand love from God's perspective. This is how God loves you and me:
God is patient; God is kind. God is not jealous, nor is He pompous, or inflated. He is never rude nor seeks His own interests. He is never quick-tempered nor broods over our sins. He does not rejoice over our wrongdoing but rejoices with the truth and our success. He is longsuffering and merciful to the extreme. (Adapted from 1 Corinthians 13 : 4 - 7).
"In this is love: not that we have loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as expiation for our sins." (1 John 4: 10).
Without the Spirit of Love living and working in us, we may never be able to overcome the effects of Original Sin working against love.
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