The sun is a perfect picture of love. It is continually pouring forth its own life in the form of
heat and light, to everything that will receive it. Light longs to unite and to become one with all things. It is therefore a perfect picture of the heart’s desires of the Creator who continually imparts His own life to all that He creates. All life upon our planet depends upon the heat and light of the sun. John begins his Gospel with the statement that light is the source of life and that our physical senses should recognize as the form in which God mediates His life to us. “In him was life; and the life was the light of men” (John 1:4). It is the nature of light to give itself to all who will receive it. There is an individual ray of light streaming forth from the sun to each thing on every planet and throughout the whole solar system. The light offers itself to every blade of grass, to every leaf on every tree and to every living creature. Love also is just like that. Love comes to every created thing and says, “I give myself to you. Open and receive me. I want to become one with you.” The apostle John grasped the conception of love’s infinitude when he said, “God is love.” It is true indeed that God is love, and hence the spiritual atmosphere of the universe is love, filling all space, and comprehending the essence of all creation; the light of the stars, the verdure of the woods, the beauty and fragrance of the flowers, the warmth and glow of the sun, the music of the spheres, the smiles and voices of nature, the thrill and throb of universal life, joy, and happiness, and even the glory and ecstasy of heaven itself. Therefore, because God our Father is love, love is at the heart of our being. Herein we behold the definition of infinite love, far too big for words! As one has quaintly written:
Could I with ink the ocean fill, Were the whole earth of parchment made, Were every blade of grass a quill, And every man a scribe by trade— To write the love of God above Would drain the ocean dry; Nor could the scroll contain the whole, Though spread from sky to sky
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