GOD IS LOVE,
LOVE LIKE GOD

If there is one truth that can change how you see life, it is this: God is love (1 John 4:8). His love is not an idea or a feeling. It is His very nature. From the beginning of history until today, God has been showing His love to His people. He showed it through His works in the past, through His Son Jesus Christ, and now through us, His children.  

Let us look at three ways God’s love is revealed and how it calls us to respond.  

God’s Love Through the Ages

When we open the Bible, we don’t just see laws and stories. We see a thread of love running from Genesis to Revelation. When the Israelites were in slavery, God said: “I have surely seen the affliction of My people… and I am aware of their sufferings” (Exodus 3:7). This simple statement reveals so much. God is not distant. He sees. He hears. He cares. During the first Passover, God gave clear instructions: take a lamb, unblemished, and place its blood on your doorposts (Exodus 12:3–7). Then God promised: “When I see the blood, I will pass over you” (Exodus 12:13). This act of obedience was not just about survival. It was about trust. The blood of the lamb became a sign of faith. That event pointed forward to something far greater — the blood of Jesus, the true Lamb of God. But God’s people often forgot His love. After being freed, they made a golden calf and bowed down to it (Exodus 32:1–4). How quickly they exchanged the God who rescued them for an idol they could control.

We may think we are different, but our hearts work the same way. We turn to money, success, relationships, or comfort. As David Clarkson said, “The human heart is indeed a factory that mass produces idols.” Yet even when we chase other loves, God still pursues us. His love is steady. 

God’s Love Through His Son  

If you ever doubt God’s love, look at the cross. “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” (1 John 4:10). Propitiation means Jesus satisfied the judgment we deserved. Our sin separated us from God, but Jesus stepped in to bridge the gap. Paul reminds us: “Though He was rich, yet for your sake He became poor, so that you through His poverty might become rich” (2 Corinthians 8:9). Jesus left the riches of heaven to take on human weakness. He gave everything for us. Peter wrote: “You were not redeemed with perishable things like silver or gold… but with precious blood, as of a lamb unblemished and spotless, the blood of Christ” (1 Peter 1:18–19). And Isaiah 53:5 says: “He was pierced for our offenses, crushed because of our wrongdoings… and by His wounds we are healed.”  

This is the center of our faith. The Son of God loved us enough to suffer and die so we could be restored.  Spend time at the cross this week. Read Isaiah 53 slowly. Let it remind you of the price Jesus paid.

God’s Love Through Us

God’s love doesn’t stop with us receiving it. It flows outward. “Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God” (1 John 4:7). To know God is to love. Lao Tzu once said: “To know and not to do is not to know.” If we claim to know God but don’t love, we are missing the point. Love is not always easy. It is not simply emotion. “Love is not doing what makes us feel good. It is doing what is good despite what we feel.” That means forgiveness when it’s hard, service when it costs us, and patience when it’s tiring.  Jesus modeled this perfectly. He laid down His life so we could be lifted up.  

In the church, love becomes real when people serve one another. Think about the volunteers who give their time, the friends who pray for you, or the quiet acts of kindness you never expected. That is God’s love through us. When we live this way, people encounter God not just in words but in action. Look around you. Who in your family, workplace, or community needs to experience God’s love? Choose one person this week and show them love in action — a visit, a message, a prayer, or even forgiveness.  

God’s love is bigger than time, stronger than sin, and deeper than anything we can imagine.  

We see His love through the ages as He cared for His people.  

We see His love through His Son who gave His life for us.  

We see His love through us when we choose to serve and love others.  

At the end of life, what will remain is love. Jesus wrote the greatest love story with His blood. He gave His very heart to us.  

The question is: will you give your heart fully to Him?