God Is Love

I just had a epiphany moment. When I hear people say, "God is good", I've always assumed that they mean that God is a good God. I was meditating on this thought when it suddenly occurred to me that good is not just a description of God. God defines what good is. In the same way, God is love does not only mean that He is capable of love, He defines what love is. In the same way God is beauty.

What is good? Being just and merciful simultaneously.

Romans 3:23
For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.
Rom. 6:23
For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life through Christ Jesus our Lord


What is love? Putting what is best for the other ahead of what's best for one's self.

John 3:16
For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only begotten Son, so that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.


What is beauty? Being Holy: set apart and untainted

Leviticus 11:45
I am the LORD who brought you up out of Egypt to be your God; therefore be holy, because I am holy

1 Peter 3:3-5
Your beauty should not come from outward adornment, such as braided hair and the wearing of gold jewelry and fine clothes. Instead, it should be that of your inner self, the unfading beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is of great worth in God's sight. For this is the way the holy women of the past who put their hope in God used to make themselves beautiful.