Wesley Huff

I don't know if there's a proper way that could give a physical attribution and description of God other than Jesus, who is God incarnate, right?

Could you think of a more powerful, a more amazing example of a God than one who actually enters into his creation?

I don't know.

I mean, that's from the Bible.

God is love.

The thing grammatically that's interesting about that when John writes that in his epistle is grammatically in the Greek, it's phrased in a way that God is love, but love is not God, right?

So you can't deify what love is, right?

When I, you know, when you love your fiance, that isn't God.

That's an inefficient description of what we know God to be.

So God is love, but love is not God.

And in that sense, going back to what I was saying, said a few times now, you know, what the Bible is saying when it says God is love is that that is the ultimate character of who God is.

In that love is this highest value.

It is that which we hold as the example ethic of what we want.

We want to be loved, right?

To be loved and not known is very insufficient.

And to be known but not loved is what we all fear.

But I think what we find in the Bible is a God who both loves and knows us.

And I think that's where the God who is love, who creates us and calls us to love him with all of our soul, all of our mind, all of our strength, that properly kind of fulfills what I think we mean when we say God is love.

I think we're looking for our purpose and our meaning in things that are ultimately not going to give the value that those things actually require.

So it's not a matter of if we worship.