Couplets of God’s Holy Love
In a previous post, Knowing God: Our Father of Holy Love, I introduced John Stott’s concept of couplets of God’s holy love. A vision of God’s holy love delivers us from caricatures of him, as John Stott reminds us.
“We must picture him neither as an indulgent God who compromises his holiness in order to spare and spoil us, nor as a harsh, vindictive God who suppresses his love in order to crush and destroy us.
That God is holy and loving is foundational to biblical Christianity and to biblical counseling. The Scriptures express the oneness or unity or simplicity[1] of God in terms of the complementary, indivisible nature of his holiness and love—his holy love. Stott refers his readers to ten passages that highlight God’s holiness and love, then concludes: “Here are ten couplets, in each of which two complementary truths about God are brought together, as if to remind us that we must beware of speaking of one aspect of God’s character without remembering its counterpart” (The Cross of Christ).
Our Father’s Holy Love
I’ve searched the Scriptures, looking for additional couplets of God’s holy love. I’ve summarized these couplets with phrases like:
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