The Love of God > 목회자칼럼

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The sun is a perfect picture of love. 

It is continually pouring forth its own life in the form of 

heat and light, to everything that will receive it. 

Light longs to unite and to become one with all things. 

It is therefore a perfect picture of the heart’s desires of the Creator 

who continually imparts His own life to all that He creates. 

All life upon our planet depends upon the heat and light of the sun. 

John begins his Gospel with the statement that light is the source of life 

and that our physical senses should recognize as the form in which 

God mediates His life to us. 

“In him was life; and the life was the light of men” (John 1:4).  

It is the nature of light to give itself to all who will receive it. 

There is an individual ray of light streaming forth from the sun to each 

thing on every planet and throughout the whole solar system. 

The light offers itself to every blade of grass, to every leaf on every tree 

and to every living creature. Love also is just like that. 

Love comes to every created thing and says, “I give myself to you. 

Open and receive me. 

I want to become one with you.”  The apostle John grasped the conception 

of love’s infinitude when he said, “God is love.” It is true indeed that 

God is love, and hence the spiritual atmosphere of the universe is love, 

filling all space, and comprehending the essence of all creation; 

the light of the stars, the verdure of the woods, the beauty and 

fragrance of the flowers, the warmth and glow of the sun, the music 

of the spheres, the smiles and voices of nature, the thrill and throb 

of universal life, joy, and happiness, and even the glory and ecstasy 

of heaven itself.  

Therefore, because God our Father is love, love is at the heart of our being. 

Herein we behold the definition of infinite love, far too big for words!