God's love

“Praise be to God, who has not rejected my prayer or withheld His love from me.” Psalm 66:20
Somehow the average person on the street has got the idea, from Christians or from portrayal of Christians, that God hates them. Nothing could be further from the truth. God loves us all – this is why He sent His own Son to die in our place (Rom. 5:8, 1 John 4:9). To be sure, He hates our sin and He must judge our sin if we don’t come to Christ to have it forgiven, but it pains Him to do so. Only when our sins are removed through our coming to faith in Christ, can God show the full extent of His love towards us.
God’s love is the most powerful force in the universe. Nothing at all – spiritual or physical – is able to separate us from God’s love (Rom. 8:38-39). His love is ‘poured out’ for us (Rom. 5:5) – or is spilling over, overflowing. Our hearts cannot contain the love God has for us. Love is the essence of God’s character (1 John 4:8, 1 John 4:16). He cannot remove His love from us, because that would be to remove Himself – and He has promised to never leave us.
Our goal as Christians should be to share this overflowing love we have received from God, with those around us. We might think, ‘They don’t deserve it.’ But we didn’t deserve God’s love either. You don’t need to like a person to love them. Love is simply doing what’s best for them, without condition and without expectation of being repaid for it. This is what God did for us.