I trust in your unfailing love;
my heart rejoices in your salvation    Psalm 13:5

For God so loved the world that He gave His
  one and only Son, that whoever believes in Him
shall not perish but have eternal life.    John 3:16

Original Artwork Suffer the Children  by Danny Hahlbohm "Let The Children Come To Me. For The Kingdom of God Belongs To Such As They." Mark 10:14
	A new commandment I give you, that you love one another,  as I have loved you. John 13:34 Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends. John15:13 God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in him. We love,  because He first loved us.  1John 4:16,19

God is Love itself and Wisdom itself, these two making up His Essence.

God is Good itself and Truth itself, because Good refers to Love and Truth to Wisdom.

Love itself and Wisdom itself constitute Life itself, or Life in itself.

Love and Wisdom are one in God.

The essence of love is loving others than oneself, wishing to be one with them, and to devoting oneself to their happiness...This third essential of God's love, to devote Himself to the happiness of others, is to be recognized in everlasting life, which is blessedness, bliss and happiness without end, which He gives to those who receive His love into themselves. 

For God, just as He is Love itself, is also blessedness itself. For every love breathes out an aura of joy from itself, and the Divine Love breathes out the very height of blessedness, bliss and happiness for ever; so God makes the angels and men after death happy from Himself, which He does by being linked with them.

These properties of the Divine Love were the reason the universe was created, and are the reason it is preserved in existence.

Emanuel Swedenborg, True Christian Religion, n.36,43[4]
first published in 1771