Love's Proof

If we say God is love, where is the proof?
St. John writes God is love, what is His case?
Creation hardly shows God is aloof,
how lovely that He made our human race.

God so much loved us, He gave up His Son,
Who stripped Himself of all His Godliness
for love of us until His job was done,
suffered and died so heaven we could possess.

All-powerful God, Whose greatest power is love,
gives us the power to love each other too,
what’s hinted here we’ll have in heaven above,
when all these proofs of love we find are true.

No greater love than dying for a friend,
You’ve shown us, Lord, already without end.

                              by Pete Voelz      7/2/14