God is love, mercy, and compassion. If there is one thing that I can say about God based on my own personal experience, it is that He has been faithful to be just that to me throughout my entire life and especially since my rebirth in Christ. I also have a strong belief base on a personal divine revelation, and, of course, on the authority of the Holy Scriptures, He will be thusly to me for all eternity. Of all the other sound and true claims about God revealed in the Bible (such as His righteous anger, His holy wrath, His severe judgments against evil doers and the reason for me, as a disciple of His, to fear Him who is able to both kill my body and cast my eternal soul in to Hell), love is still the one characteristic that stands out the most in my mind and heart when I think about Him and who He is, has been, and will be towards me. Now this does not mean that I have not experienced His hard hand of correction, His displeasure because of my sinful behavior, or the horrible consequences of willfully breaking His commandments and in so doing mocking Him. On the contrary, I, for one, have experienced all of these in abundance, and I pray that I will have to experience them less and less as time goes by. All the same, there is nothing that can convince me that God is not love because as I said before, I have been the constant recipient of his love from the start of my life to this present hour and as I also said before, I fully trust that I will continue to be a recipient of His love for all eternity.

Perhaps the greatest aspect of His love for me is realized in His patience towards me, and His willingness to be there for me, especially after my many failings on a multitude of human levels. He could have and should have consumed me in His justified anger on many, many occasions - but He didn’t! It is His goodness that has been, is, and will continue to lead me to repentance, and it is the grace of His goodness that is causing me to make spiritual progress along the path of His righteousness. I pray that we will all come to know God in His love towards us in the Person of His Son Jesus Christ and in the power of His Holy Spirit.