Define: Love

I wrote a blog back in 2009 with the same title but really this is not related at all.

1 John 4 NIV

⁷ Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. ⁸ Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love. ⁹ This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. ¹⁰ This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. ¹¹ Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. ¹² No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us.

Sometime we ask the question how can God let such and such happen if God is Love.

If you believe in the truth of the scriptures you find above that you are required to believe that the definition of Love is GOD.

So why do we think God doesn't love in certain situation? I can think of only two ways.

1.Our definition of love doesn't match Gods. (which I am certain most times it does not)

2. We don't see it from Gods perspective or you could say don't have all the information (which I am certain at all times we do not)

So what do we do about it. I believe God intends that we wrestle with Him and ourselves about it so that we can correct our errors and believe the truth.

So what are some hits about how to do that. 

God see the big picture and is a focused vet that has your eternal life in mind. He would not sacrifice your long term eternal life for some short term enjoyment.

Romans 8 (NIV)
¹⁸ I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us.  

Jeremiah 17:10 (NIV) 

¹⁰ “I the Lord search the heart

    and examine the mind,
to reward each person according to their conduct,
    according to what their deeds deserve.”