God is Love! Who are we?

WORD 2day: Tuesday after Epiphany

January 6, 2026 - 1 John 4: 7-10; Mark 6: 34-44

The image of God among God's people was continuously evolving... in the beginning they thought God was a demanding task master, but later understood God was loving too; first they thought God was an angry God, but later they found that God was slow to anger, abounding in love; first they thought God was an uncompromising God but later they understood God was merciful too! The evolution finds its climax in Christ, who reveals God as absolutely compassionate, profusely loving, immensely forgiving and unconditionally accepting!

Knowing God to be such a person, is in a way a great news for us; but at the same time a big challenge. A great news because we are cared for and protected in that unbelievable love. A challenge because, if we are children of that God, we need to be defined by who God is. 

Our God is love; hence we are called to be children of love! From the way we understand God to be, or the way God reveals Godself to be, we are defined as to who and what we are! From the way we live our life, the world should be able to understand the kind of God we believe in. This is what is called the integrity of faith: the correlation between our faith and our living!

Now that Jesus in his compassion and in his mercy, has revealed God as love, let us ask ourselves... who are we?