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We Are Love: Why Love Is Not Just What God Does, but Who God Is
The phrase We Are Love is not a slogan, a brand, or a poetic aspiration. It is a theological declaration. It is rooted in Scripture, anchored in truth, and meant to shape how we understand God, ourselves, and the world we are called to serve.
At the heart of this declaration is a profound biblical truth:
“He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.”
1 John 4:8 (King James Version)
This verse does not say that God has love, uses love, or sometimes shows love. It says God is love.
That distinction changes everything.
Love Is Not Merely God’s Action
Many people think of love primarily as something God does. God loves when He forgives. God loves when He blesses. God loves when He heals.
All of that is true, but it is incomplete.
If love were only an action God performs, then love would be conditional, situational, and dependent on circumstance. Scripture reveals something far deeper. Love is not simply one of God’s attributes among many. Love flows from His very nature.
God does not decide to love. He loves because He is love.
The Difference Between Sentimental Love and Divine Love
The world often defines love as emotion, attraction, or approval. Sentimental love is easily given when conditions are favorable and quickly withdrawn when they are not.
Divine love is different.
Biblical love is:
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Rooted in truth
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Expressed through sacrifice
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Steadfast in adversity
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Redemptive, not permissive
Scripture tells us:
“Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.”
1 John 4:10 (KJV)
God’s love confronts sin, heals brokenness, restores dignity, and calls us into transformation. It does not leave us where it finds us.
“We Are Love” as a Doctrinal Statement
When we say We Are Love, we are making a statement about identity, not emotion.
Because God is love, and because we are created in His image, love becomes our calling and our nature in Him. This does not mean we are perfect. It means we are being formed.
Scripture says:
“Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.”
1 John 4:7 (KJV)
To be born of God is to be drawn into His nature. Love becomes the evidence of genuine relationship with Him. Not performance. Not religious appearance. Love.
Love That Transforms, Not Just Comforts
God’s love comforts the hurting, but it also transforms the willing. It heals wounds, but it also reshapes hearts. It restores the broken, but it also renews the mind.
This is why love and truth are never in conflict in Scripture. God’s love tells the truth because truth is essential for freedom.
“And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.”
John 8:32 (KJV)
Love that refuses truth is not biblical love. And truth spoken without love misrepresents God’s heart. In Christ, the two are perfectly joined.
Living as People of Love
To live as people of love is not passive. It is intentional. It means choosing patience over anger, humility over pride, forgiveness over resentment, and faith over fear.
It means allowing God’s love to shape:
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How we treat family
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How we engage culture
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How we respond to suffering
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How we speak truth
This is the foundation of ministry. Love is not an accessory to the Gospel. Love is the Gospel expressed through a redeemed life.
A Closing Prayer
Father God,
We thank You that You are love itself. Teach us not only to receive Your love, but to live it. Remove from us every false definition of love that is rooted in fear, pride, or self-interest. Shape our hearts to reflect Your nature, that the world may see You through us. In Jesus’ name, Amen.
A Declaration
I declare that God is love, and I am being formed in His likeness.
I choose to walk in truth, compassion, and faith.
I receive God’s transforming love and reflect it to others.
Reflection Question
In what area of your life is God inviting you to move from sentimental love to sacrificial, transforming love?