What is this about love?

Jesus loves me, Jesus loves you, Jesus loves the world.
How do I know this? 
Scripture says God is love and He loved us first. So much so did He love us that He gave His Son as a sacrifice to restore and grant us a relationship with Him. He extended love to us and called us His children. 
We experience His love via His sacrifice; believing in Jesus, God's own Son. And we love Him back by following His precepts, as mentees to mentor. 
How can God be love and how can He love us? How true is the claim that He loves the world? Does God still love? 
A loveless person is a sightless person, as opposed to the cliche that love is blind. That thought is a prevarication of God's nature. He hasn't told any lies, especially not about Himself. He can't and He won't, He doesn't need to. We are all His and He says He loves us. If there really was no love from God to us, past and present, there would be no love from one to another, no noble intentions and no peace or unity. Love fosters tenderness and intimacy, without love only hostility and all forms of savagery will be. All love is a shadow/an image of the love that was first. We go out of our ways at times to help others because love works in us. And the best way to love is to put our lives on the line for our friends. 
God put His love (Son) on the line for us by offering Jesus while we were of no use to Him. Whether we accept His love or not, nothing can stop His loving us. Indeed nothing can get between us and God's love. Though the great commandment states "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, with all thy soul, and with all thy mind," there is no coercion or fear in His love. Rather he tells us that walking in love brings no wrong. By loving our neighbours even as our selves, we prove that love is the greatest. 
However, because we always want our way, we try to call the shots, even where God is concerned but need I remind you that nothing can be entirely controlled. God is sovereign and He owes no explanations. If His will were paramount to us then we could dare to ask Him questions - not question Him, as sons to father, even if He isn't obliged to answer. God's love holds no offence or arguments. Take it or leave it; don't explain it away. 

*Passages of Scripture quoted directly and indirectly are from the Message translation and King James Version of the Bible. 

#UnChurched 
29/12/2016 
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