1 John 4:8
God is LOVE
8 Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.
Hebrews 13:8
Jesus the Same Yesterday, Today, and Forever
8 Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.
John 3:16-17
God LOVES the World
16 For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. 17 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.
God is LOVE...So God LOVES yesterday, today, and forever...God has an eternal LOVE for us...
A non-believing reader of the Old Testament might believe that tough discipline and tough laws might mean that LOVE is not there...But LOVE is in discipline and in rules...Don't we teach our children through both discipline and rules...And a child senses that proper discipline and rules are LOVE...LOVE teaches the child to be better and to understand goodness...While a wrathful heart and those only who can love in a moment teaches the child little...The naive young heart does not understand love today and wrath tomorrow...
LOVE, therefore, is a Teacher...And that I believe is one of the reasons God sent His Son to Teach us...He sent His Son out of LOVE to Teach us about Him and His Son...God did not send His Son to dwell among us to condemn us...No God sent Him to save us from our sins and learn more about Him and His Son...
Now back to LOVE being an eternal quality...It is easy to love someone for one day or a week, even an evil one can do that...To love occasionally or for the moment or for one night is not true love...But to be able to LOVE forever is knowing that LOVE is about forgiveness, mercy, and grace...