God is love, but?
I’ve often heard that God is love. What does that mean? I know that he sent Jesus to pay for our sins... that was love. Unconditional, we certainly didn’t deserve it. But that is a portrayal of love. I’m having trouble understanding how he “is” love. So I went to 1st Corinthians chapter 13 and I read verses 4-8. So, here’s the run down. God is patient (long suffering). Yes. He takes his time and is a God that can wait. Ok so God is kind... that means he can’t be cruel or hateful or abusive. That means that kindness is who he is, not what he does. Awesome ! Now I’m going to skip the next one for now. I’ll get back to it later. Then it says that he doesn’t parade himself around. Now that’s just cool. If anybody should have a parade it should be God. But if you look at Jesus, he’d rather serve than have a parade. Now he did have one parade, but that was to fulfill his destiny, not his ego. Ok, so next...he is not “puffed up” . What? I looked that phrase up through an onlin