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EDITOR'S<br />
LETTER<br />
"IS GOD'S LOVE ACCOMMODATING?<br />
love is not a passing sentiment; it is who<br />
"ACCOMMODATING- willing to fit in with<br />
God is. Love is not something that comes<br />
someone's wishes or needs<br />
and goes; it is who God is. God is love. It is<br />
His essential nature. God cannot be<br />
People have lots of questions about God<br />
unloving, because He is love.<br />
—what is He like? And the best way to<br />
answer those is to look at Jesus. Jesus<br />
Then John applies it to us. Because God is<br />
said, “If you have seen me, you have seen<br />
love, we’re to love one another. “Whoever<br />
the Father.” The God I wish you knew is<br />
does not love does not know God,<br />
the God that Jesus revealed. This God is<br />
because God is love.<br />
Father, He is good and generous, He is<br />
trustworthy and just. And the God I wish<br />
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you knew is love. (I’m going to take some<br />
extra time on the introduction.)<br />
“God is love.” Who said that? The apostle<br />
John. In the very back of your New<br />
Testament are three short letters from<br />
John: 1, 2, 3 John. In 1 John, he writes:<br />
1 John 4:7–8 Dear friends, let us love one<br />
another, for love comes from God.<br />
Everyone who loves has been born of<br />
God and knows God. 8 Whoever does not<br />
love does not know God, because God is<br />
love.<br />
God is love. This is a remarkable<br />
statement. John is saying that for God :<br />
03 <strong>NJR</strong> <strong>DIGITAL</strong> <strong>MAGAZINE</strong>
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