“GOD IS LOVE!”

 1 John 4:15-19                       (ESV)

“[15] Whoever confesses that JESUS is the SON of GOD, GOD ABIDES IN HIM, and HE IN GOD. [16] So we have come to know and to believe the love that GOD has for us. “GOD IS LOVE”, and whoever abides in love abides in GOD, and GOD abides in him. [17] By this is love perfected with us, so that we may have confidence for the day of judgment, because as HE IS SO ALSO ARE WE IN THIS WORLD. [18] There is NO FEAR IN LOVE, but PERFECT LOVE CASTS OUT FEAR. For fear has to do with punishment, and WHOEVER FEARS HAS NOT BEEN PERFECTED IN LOVE. [19] WE LOVE BECAUSE HE FIRST LOVED US.”

“GOD IS LOVE”, but HE doesn’t love sin!  How can HE LOVE me, a sinner condemned unclean?  Because JESUS CHRIST paid the ULTIMATE SACRIFICE for we who were CHOSEN BEFORE THE FOUNDATION OF THE WORLD (Ephesians 1:4) to live IN THIS WORLD as a testimony of HIS MERCY and GRACE!  Even though I don’t measure up to what I should, “GOD IS LOVE” and HE SEES JESUS when HE looks at me!!!