We shouldn't hear God is love in some way that guts love into being mere benevolence. C.S. Lewis nailed this: We want, in fact, not so much a Father in Heaven as a grandfather in heaven—a senile benevolence who, as they say, 'liked to see young people enjoying themselves and whose plan for the universe was simply that it might be truly said at the end of each day, " a good time was had by all."
If God is Love, He is, by definition, something more than mere kindness. And it appears, from all the records, that though He has often rebuked us and condemned us, He has never regarded us with contempt. He has paid us the intolerable compliment of loving us, in the deepest, most tragic, most inexorable sense. That nails it! God is love, a firey, jealous, wondrous love, and He won't settle. Said another way, He is determined to make you blessedly holy. It is not at all the same thing as making your happiness His top concern.
-Pr. Will Weedon
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