"All sorts of people are fond of repeating the Christian statement that 'God is love'. But they seem not to notice that the words 'God is love' have no real meaning unless God contains at least two Persons. Love is something that one person has for another person. If God was a single person, then before the world was made, he was not love. Of course, what these people mean when they say that God is love is often something quite different: they really mean 'Love is God'. They really mean that our feelings of love, however and wherever they arise, and whatever results they produce, are to be treated with great respect. Perhaps they are: but that is something quite different from what Christians mean by the statement 'God is love'. They believe that the living, dynamic activity of love has been going on in God forever and has created everything else." (Mere Christianity, 174-75)
I read this after a few interesting challenges that occurred over the last week. The first was reading a friend's comments on the will of God. He reminded us, "We should not be asking, 'What is God's will for my life?' Rather we should ask the question, 'What is God's will?'" The second challenge came during a short devo in which the leader challenged the group to remember that the H.S. (God) has called us each to our individual ministries, whatever they are. It is not the nominations committee or some other person from within the church that has called us, IT IS GOD that called us to our ministry.
Lewis has a wonderful observation about who God is. Three in One, Father, Son, Spirit. All Love. If you need a better understanding of God's love, meditate on the passage found in John 1:1, 3:16; 1 John 4:7-21.
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