Sometimes I find it hard to explain who God is to people. I know I’m not alone in this. It’s just not the easiest thing to explain the author of all creation. Simplifying Him in a couple of sentences that are explainable seems insulting at some level.

Yet when the apostle John is writing in his first letter, he writes a very concise sentence describing God. He writes this: “God is love” (1 John 4:16).

Really, John? A three-word sentence?

I have trouble explaining who God is, yet the disciple he most loved sums him up in one word.

Love.