“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."

(1 John 4:16)

The sweeter the truth — the more backward we often are to receive and believe it. Therefore, it must be presented to us again and again. What is more pleasant than the fact that "God is love!" Yet so quickly we doubt it, or forget it, or fail to realize it. Therefore, the Gospel presents it to us again and again, and in almost every possible form. Twice within the scope of a few verses, John tells us that GOD IS LOVE, 1 John 4:8; 1 John 4:16.

God loves us, and therefore He planned our salvation, sending His One and Only Son to take away our sins by the sacrifice of Himself. He also sent His Holy Spirit to teach us our need of Christ and lead us to Him. And, finally, He has put His blessed Word in our hands so that we, through patience and comfort of the Scriptures, might have Hope.