Not That We Loved God
As John writes, “Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us, and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins.” That alone is the meaning of John’s supreme word, “God is love”; and that has its basis in, as it were, an eternal choice that He would not be the alternative, the self-getting God. That is why He is the safe God of the universe, because He is the LoverFather and can be nothing else. That is why we can learn to have a positive outlook on a world of very negative appearances; for we know those are only temporary surface conditions, like barnacles on a ship, like ripples on the surface of a large, transparent lake; and we become those who live by “seeing through”—now, in this present time, seeing His perfect creation, the kingdom of heaven, shining through the surface disturbances. That is why the only sin is unbelief, questioning the kind of person God is. We may say we can’t account for this horror or that tragedy, but we must never say, “What kind of a God are You to permit that?” We can only say, if we are not to have a cloud over our spirits: “What You do or determine is always perfect love with a perfect outcome.”
And so we see the corollary that, if this universe has its safe foundation in its Lover-Father, it must necessarily also be owned, managed and developed by safe sons—lover-sons. And this is why we are so carefully investigating how we are to be “real persons,” experiencing our fixedness as safe lover-sons, and walking confidently in that fixity-now, in this thoroughly unfixed and confused world. And once again, there is a total answer.
Taken from: Yes, I Am, By Norman Grubb
