For when those of the world say, “God is love,” what they really mean is, “Love is God.” For love is their god. But we know that all of His perfections are active and true, and that love is not resentful or arrogant, nor does it rejoice in wrongdoing and sin, but instead rejoices in holiness and the truth.
And because of their ignorance towards the truth, and their hatred of it, God has poured out His wrath on a wicked and unjust people while choosing what is foolish in the world to shame the wise, what is weak in the world to shame the strong, what is low and despised in the world, even the things that are not, to bring to nothing the things that are, so that no human being might boast in the presence of God. For He is HOLY, HOLY, HOLY and beside Him there is no other. He is the almighty, EL SHADDAI. He is the most high, EL ELYON. He is the first and the last, EL ELOM.
Yet, despite our unworthiness, in the immeasurable nature of His mercy and eternal love for us, He gave His only begotten Son, Jesus Christ, to pay our debt, to be to us wisdom from God, righteousness, sanctification, and redemption, so that we might be reconciled to Him as adopted sons unto eternal life.
So when those of the world say, “God is love,” yet really mean, “Love is God,” or “God is everything,” but actually mean, “Everything is God,” instead know and understand the truth: that everything is in Him, through Him, and for Him. For He is.