Amazing Love!

When the Bible says God is love, it is saying more than the fact that God loves, or that God is loving, or even that God is lovely; it is saying that love is the power behind everything He does. Love is not merely one of His attributes but His whole nature. God is not only the Author of loving acts; He is love in the very core of His being. Our thoughts of God’s love must be built on God’s revelation about Himself in the Scriptures, not by projecting our own ideas about love onto Him. Let’s focus, therefore, on what the Bible has to say about the God who is love.

First, God’s love is uninfluenced. By this I mean that nothing in us can give rise to it and nothing in us can extinguish it. It is “love for nothing,” as someone once put it.

The love which we humans have for one another is drawn out of us by something in the object of our love. But God’s love is not like that; His love is free, spontaneous, and uncaused. The passage before us today makes clear that there is no reason behind the love of God for His people. If you look for a reason, you just won’t find one. He loves because … He loves.

No man or woman can ever explain why God loves us. To explain it would require that He loves us for something outside of Himself. And as we have seen, He loves us for ourselves alone. His love has its beginning not in us but in Himself. He is love’s source, as well as its river.

Further Study

Eph 2:1-10; 1Jn 3:1

How does Paul describe God’s reason for saving us?

How does John put it?