What does it mean that God loves us?
What does it mean to love?
We use the term for the mysterious affinity between parent and child, friend and friend, husband and wife. It is the strongest factor in our nature, which bridges distance and triumphs over impassible barriers. We know that when this passion takes possession of us, it eliminates self, and makes another’s interests the pivot of thought and effort and life. Then turning from ourselves to God, we cry, “It is thus that God feels toward man.” “God so loved the world.” “He loves me.”
F. B. Meyer