Love isn’t God

After my posts last week on the enticement of dating non-Christians I went to the wedding of a friend on yesterday. The minister, Andrew Leslie, gave a short sermon based on Psalm 100 and 1 John 4:7-12. Near the beginning of his sermon he said this:

Note that the bible doesn't say Love is God. It says God is Love.

I thought, wow, that’s exactly it! I, unfortunately, think I missed a couple of minutes of what he said next because I was dwelling on that one line and how it fitted in with my recent thoughts (and it was a very hot Saturday afternoon!). But he went on to briefly mention the way that anything becomes justifiable if Love is god (ie, we make Love the god and guiding principle of our life) such as adultery and divorce etc, and he didn’t list this one but I mentally included dating non-Christians. Following on from that he talked about the way we are to build our lives on the certainty of God's love, as it is demonstrated in the passage. I think I am going to be using that line in the future.