God's love for us extends far beyond the bounds of human comprehension; and awareness of how much we are loved by Him is forever slipping from our consciousness. God's love for us is infinitely superior to any love we could ever express to each other, but we often proclaim a or view love through the lenses of the world's standard for ourselves than what we believe God has for us.
God's love is unconditional and not an emotional response to something we have done or spoken. God loves us because He is love, not because we are loveable. And yet, we question whether or not God truly loves us.
Most of us think that we understand the love of God, but our experience proves otherwise.
And when we struggle to believe that God's promises to us will come to pass, that is unbelief. The root of that unbelief is a lack of love. "For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision avails anything, but faith working through love" (Galatians 5:6). Love is the driving force behind our faith. Remove or diminish love, and faith ceases to be what it should be. God loves us because "God is love" (1 John 4:8).
Love cannot be fulfilled without an object and God desired an object for His love outside of Himself.
Love has already been established within the Godhead, between the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. The love was innate to the divine nature; there was no other. It was a self-love, completely sufficient unto itself and in need of no other. Yet there is a difference between a need and a desire.
God did not need further love, but He desires to express the love He has to others. Therefore, God created humans—us—with the capacity to choose to love Him and others. Love of someone beyond oneself has no meaning without the ability for its object to respond in like manner. God is entirely self-sufficient, but He desires to love and to be loved.
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