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Christians take great comfort in
the New Testament teaching that God is love. Such a Being has His creation’s
well being at heart and does all for the best of His children. Christians,
therefore, feel enveloped by God’s Divine love and are deeply reassured by the
fact that their divine Father wants their best at all times.
We humans are blessed
to be a part of an existence conceived and orchestrated by a Being who is
totally motivated by love. The Bible assures us that God is love (I
John 4:8,16); that He is a God who delights in and “exercises loving
kindness”(Jeremiah 9:24); and who is “plenteous in mercy” (Psalm 86:5).
Everything about His essence is goodness and other- centeredness, and no
selfishness is to be found in Him.
From the beginning, He
made everything in the universe with love, with the ultimate aim that it would
all be “very good”(Genesis 1;31). That “very good” creation was to be a special
world for His last physical creation; a special gift of love for his children,
made in His very image: man and woman. The earth is “full of the goodness of the
Lord” (Psalm 33:5), yet it is only a token of the future world God is planning
to give to spiritually transformed humans that will, by far, surpass anything
imaginable in beauty and glory.
Lastly, humans were not
simply created to exist for a period of time, experience life, suffer
and then die. He created humans as His supreme masterpiece with whom he wants
to share all things (Romans 8:16-17). To accomplish this great aim, He sent His
son to die a most excruciating death, as supreme evidence that He wants humans with
Him in His Kingdom forever. As the Apostle John reminds us, “God so loved the
world that He gave His only begotten son, that whosoever believes in Him should not perish but
have everlasting life” (John 3:16).
Let
there be no doubt, therefore, that our God IS love and only love, and that His
aims are good and only good, at all times. Let all of creation be fully
reassured and exult in this awesome truth.
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