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Not what is God? WHO is God? He is the creator of heaven and earth. Love personified. Contrary to some people's beliefs, God does not only love good people; He loves the sinners, as well. He doesn't love their wicked ways, but He loves them as an individual. It’s in the Bible, Matthew 5:45, 46 “For [God] gives his sunlight to both the evil and the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust too. If you love only those who love you, what good is that? Even scoundrels do that much.”
God loves us like a doting father. It’s in the Bible, 1 John 3:1, NKJV. “Behold what manner of love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God! Therefore the world does not know us, because it did not know Him.”
We are to follow God’s example of love. It’s in the Bible, 1 John 4:11 “Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.
We are to be holy like God is. It's in the Bible, 1 Peter 1:14-16, CEB. "Don’t be conformed to your former desires, those that shaped you when you were ignorant. But, be holy in every aspect of your lives, just as the one who called you is holy.
God’s love means that He must sometimes discipline us. It’s in the Bible, Proverbs 3:11-12, NKJV. “My son, do not despise the chastening of the LORD, nor detest His correction; for whom the LORD loves He corrects, just as a father the son in whom he delights.”
God never gives up on us. Jeremiah 31:3 “The LORD has appeared of old to me, saying: ‘Yes, I have loved you with an everlasting love; therefore with lovingkindness I have drawn you.’”
Nothing can separate us from God’s love. It’s in the Bible, Romans 8:38-39 “For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.”
God loves us like a doting father. It’s in the Bible, 1 John 3:1, NKJV. “Behold what manner of love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God! Therefore the world does not know us, because it did not know Him.”
We are to follow God’s example of love. It’s in the Bible, 1 John 4:11 “Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.
We are to be holy like God is. It's in the Bible, 1 Peter 1:14-16, CEB. "Don’t be conformed to your former desires, those that shaped you when you were ignorant. But, be holy in every aspect of your lives, just as the one who called you is holy.
God’s love means that He must sometimes discipline us. It’s in the Bible, Proverbs 3:11-12, NKJV. “My son, do not despise the chastening of the LORD, nor detest His correction; for whom the LORD loves He corrects, just as a father the son in whom he delights.”
God never gives up on us. Jeremiah 31:3 “The LORD has appeared of old to me, saying: ‘Yes, I have loved you with an everlasting love; therefore with lovingkindness I have drawn you.’”
Nothing can separate us from God’s love. It’s in the Bible, Romans 8:38-39 “For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.”