Your name is Love.

 Your Name Is Love

A Reflection on 1 John 4:8, John 3:16, and 1 Corinthians 13

Your name is Love—not a sentiment, not a phrase,

But the very essence of Your being through endless days.

Before the mountains were born, before the earth took shape,

Love dwelt in triune glory, with no need to escape.

God is love. (1 John 4:8)

Love—not love as the world defines,

Fickle, fragile, fading with the lines

Of circumstance and feeling. No, Your love is bedrock deep.

A covenant that holds us when we cannot stand or sleep.

Your name is Love—it wrote itself on Calvary’s hill,

Where the Word made flesh was silent, yet His whispers still

Declared forgiveness, welcomed the thief, cried out, “It is done.”

Love stretched its arms and died to make the many one.

For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son. (John 3:16)

Love—not a reward for goodness, not a wage for the just,

But a pursuing, patient kindness that rises from the dust

To lift the broken, to heal the leper, to call the dead to rise.

Your name is Love, and it is seen in mercy’s eyes.

It keeps no record of wrongs; it bears all things, believes all things.

It hopes, endures, and never, ever stings.

It is not self‑seeking, not easily angered, not proud.

Your name is Love—and it silences every doubt.

Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. (1 Corinthians 13:4)

So I rest in the name that is Love—not in my ability to feel,

But in the unshakeable truth that Your affection is real.

I am loved with an everlasting love; nothing can separate me.

Your name is Love, and that love has set me free.

“I have loved you with an everlasting love; I have drawn you with unfailing kindness.” (Jeremiah 31:3)

Your name is Love. Let it be my song, my breath, my story.

From this life into the next, to You be all the glory.

Amen.