God’s Love

1 John 4:7
by G. V. Wigram
The expression repeated over and over in verse 7 of 1 John 4 is "love." And in verse 8 it is repeated again, winding up with "God is love.”
It is very important to enter into the truth, not only that love is of God, and that He dwells in us who believe, but to understand that the love here spoken of is the character of God Himself. "God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him." v. 16. This is something exceedingly beautiful to those who know it, and "he that loveth not, knoweth not God; for God is love.”