God is unlike us.
God is self-sufficient. (Acts 17:24-26, 1 Cor 8:6)
God is the Creator. (Genesis 1:1)
God had no beginning. (Psalm 90:2)
God has no end. (Psalm 102:27)
God is all-powerful. (Isaiah 46:10)
God is omniscient. (Psalm 139, Matthew 10:30, Acts 27:21-25)
But, even more important, God is holy and righteous. Perfect. Awesome. His name is above all names.
God is love His love is unconditional and sacrificial. (John 3:16, Romans 5:8, 1 John 4:7,8)
And because God is also unchanging (Hebrews 13:8), the love that He has for us today is still the kind of love that John 3:16 talks about.
If that Bible verse really means something to us, we should have a holy desire to live for God and to pattern our lives after His character. This desire is not natural to us, because we are by nature sinners. Rather, it is supernatural, brought about by a new birth, as it were, into the kingdom of God.
