God is love in His very nature and His love is revealed in many ways.
IN CREATION. His voice is on the rolling air; we see Him in the rising and setting of the sun. In the singing of the birds and in the love of human hearts, the voice of God is present.
IN HIS WISDOM. God created us out of His overflowing love and goodness, and He made us able to receive all the blessedness which He had ordained for us. He “thought” us in the rapture of His own great heart!
IN HIS POWER. The whole world moves to God’s great, inscrutable will. “For in him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things have been created through him and for him” (Colossians 1:16).
IN HIS HOLINESS. God walked and talked with mankind. He showed them the path in which they must walk in order to enjoy the happiness God had ordained for them.
IN HIS JUSTICE. God showed to humanity that compliance with His dictates would always mean eternal bliss and unspeakable joy, life, and knowledge forever. But failure to comply would mean the loss of life with God and eternal death.
In the world’s bright morning, the stars sang together, and all creation leaped in joy. Then the desolation of disobedience, pride, and sinfulness entered, opening a great gulf between God and His children. But God came to us. The gift of His only Son surely reveals His love in an amazing degree: “He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all—how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things?” (Romans 8:32).
Adapted from God Is Love: Reflections on the Character of God by Oswald Chambers. DiscoverySeries.org/Q0612.
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