Never separate God's love from His justice

God doesn’t have love, God IS love (1 John 4:8).

More specifically agape love, a selfless love. A pure and sacrificial love (John 3:16) that it’s not based on what we do.
There is NOTHING we can do to earn it, and make God love us more or love us less.  His love is everlasting  (Jeremiah 31:3).

God is patient (2 Peter 3:9), Kind (Titus 3:4), He does not envy, does not boast, He is not proud, nor rude, He is not self-seeking, and He is not easily angered, and He keeps no record of wrongs. God does not delight in evil but rejoices in truth (John 14:6). He always protects, trusts, hopes and perseveres. God never fails. (1 Corinthians 13:4-8)

Because God loves us:
--Christ died for us even though we are sinners (Romans 5:8)
--Gave us the right to be “Sons of God” (1 John 3:1)
--He draws us to Him (John 6:44)
--He doesn’t wants us to perish (2 Peter 3:9)

If we choose to abide in His love, there is nothing that can separate us of that love.

“For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.” (Romans 8:38-39)

People always say: “I don’t think a loving God would do this or that…” but:

People need to understand that where there is love there is justice.

As the dictionary says: Justice is “the administering of deserved punishment or reward.” In other words Justice is getting what we deserve.

God’s justice (Gen 18:25) is righteous and doesn’t do respect of persons (Lev 19:15); His justice is not distorted or partial (Deuteronomy 16:19), because: God is the Rock, His work is perfect: all his ways are judgment; He is a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is He (Deuteronomy 32:4).

God’s justice is equal to all.
And we all deserve death. For the wages of sin is death…” (Romans 6:23)

Yes, a loving God takes lives away, because He is just.  

“He loves righteousness and justice; The earth is full of the lovingkindness of the LORD” ~Psalm 35:5

He is not swayed by the world’s justice, by what we think justice is supposed to be.
If we don’t accept life (John 14:16), we will receive what we deserve: death.
Those who don’t accept life will be casted in the lake of fire (Revelation 20:15) to be punished with everlasting destruction (2 Thessalonians 1:9). That is justice.

We reap what we sow (Galatians 6:7), if we sow sin we reap death (Romans 6:23).

The beautiful part is that:

We deserve death but He gives us mercy.

He gives us an escape route: “to not receive death”.  To not receive what we deserve.

“But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us” ~ Ephesians 2:4

“Who is a God like unto thee, that pardoneth iniquity, and passeth by the transgression of the remnant of his heritage? he retaineth not his anger for ever, because he delighteth in mercy.” ~ Micah 7:18

The word mercy (‘chesed’ or ‘racham’ in the OT) is also translated to favor, compassion, kindness and loving-kindness.  Because God loves us, He shows us compassion by extending us His mercy, consequently withholding the punishment we deserve.

Adam and Eve deserved death, they didn’t deserve descendants. We—sinners—are alive because He is rich in mercy, because of His great love (Ephesians 2:4).

Because God loves us, Jesus died for us so we could receive life instead of death, and we could be saved, by grace.

We don’t deserve it but he offers us salvation

Salvation in the bible means to: save, deliver, protect, heal.

Sin separates us from God (Isaiah 59:2) and Jesus reconciled the word to Himself (2 Corinthians 5) to serve as a bridge between God the father and us (1 Timothy 2:5).

God heals us (Exodus 15:26) from the disease that is sin. He served as our substitute and He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon Him; and with His stripes we are healed. (Isaiah 53:5).

“Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.” ~1 Peter 2:24

“And ye know that he was manifested to take away our sins; and in him is no sin.” ~1 John 3:5

Jesus saves us from God’s wrath/judgment (Romans 1:18): “Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him.” ~ Romans 5:9

He will give us a life free of sin, suffering, and pain (Revelation 21:4). He’ll give us eternal life (1 Corinthians 15:51-52)

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.” ~ John 3:16