God is love. 1 John 4:8, 16
Yet, what is love?
What does it mean to say Someone IS Love?

We use the word "love" quite freely, yet "love" isn't about "loving" chocolate cake; love is a complex, powerful and often hard to grasp reality
Following are questions we may be wrestling with concerning love and justice.

Is love a principle, an action, a feeling, a character, what is love?
Does God's love only give like an outflowing river, or does it also receive?
Is divine love purely self-sacrificial, or might God's love find delight in a relationship love?
Is God's love emotional, or a just a holy principle, or can it be both?
Does God really care about humans?
Can God's love be rejected or forfeited?
Does God enter into a back-and-forth love relationship with creatures?
Is anger and/or displeasure incompatible with love?
Does love punish?
What is Justice?
How do love and justice go together?
How does the way we display love and justice differ from God's love and justice?
If God is love, why is there evil in the world, and so much of it?
Why do "good" people who believe in Him suffer? Why does God heal some and not others?
Can humans love the way God does? If so, what would that look like? And how can we achieve it?

Love is a word often used by people, but it is a very complex subject.
The hope of these lessons is that many of the above questions (and countless more) can find Biblical answers as we explore these and other questions throughout this quarter.

And that we will realize that God's love is far greater than we might think. God's love as depicted in Scripture is far superior to the ideas that pass for "love" in much of our world today.

In the coming weeks, we will look more closely at some of the most prominent and beautiful aspects of God's love that are revealed in the Bible.