Part 6: How Can God Be Love?
What did John mean when He said "God IS love?" Not that God is an impersonal force, but that everything He does is motivated by His love. Whether you know it or not, you've been the beneficiary of His love (Common grace): Ps. 145:9, 15-16, Acts 14:17, Luke 6:35, Ro 1:20. But His love is most keenly felt by those most profoundly aware of their sinfulness: Luke 15.
If we are the Temple where redemption happens, what is our plan to draw people to Him? The answer is to relearn an ancient, almost forgotten practice: Hospitality. In a time when loneliness is an epidemic, when few people know their neighbors, something as simple as a meal together can be the starting place for something beautiful to happen.
When our bond with God was severed by our sin, He didn’t give up on us. He made a second Eden, a place for us to meet with Him and be redeemed. That place was the Temple, and the events that happened there teach us about a God who is mighty to save, the cost of our sin, and His plans for us.
