The Love of God

“And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.” (I John 4:16)

If first Corinthians thirteen is the love chapter of the Bible, then the First Epistle of John is the love book of the Bible. Some form of the word “love” is used forty-six times in this epistle.

John is like an artist who paints with different colors to capture the light on his canvas. John uses love as his paint, giving us the different angles and definitions of love.

In the song, “The Love of God” there is a verse that was found written anonymously, scratched on one of the interior walls of an insane asylum.
                                           
                                                    The Love of God
              “Could we with ink the ocean fill, and were the sky of parchment made;
                     Were every stalk on earth a quill, and every man a scribe by trade:
              To write the love of God above, would drain the ocean dry;
                     Nor could the scroll contain the whole though stretched from sky to sky.”