God Is Love

God's very nature is to love. Just as every being acts always and only according to its nature, so God always and only loves....
An analogy or comparison may help. It is the nature of the sun to give warmth and light. Now you and I can stand under the sun and feel its warmth to make us warm. We can allow its light to fill our senses and surroundings with light. However, we can also separate ourselves from the sun, in partial ways or even completely. We can put a sun umbrella, a parasol, over our heads, or we can lock ourselves in a dark dungeon where the sun cannot possibly reach us. Whatever we do, whether we stand in the sun or separate ourselves from it, we know that the sun itself does not change. The sun does not go out....
Just so, God is love. Because we are free, we can separate ourselves from God's love. We can leave God.... But God, like the sun in our comparison, does not cease to love because we have left.... In a real sense, we can refuse the love of God but we can never lose the love of God.
Quiet Moments With John Powell, S. J.