
One of the common descriptors of the divine is “omnipotent” – the all-powerful.
But then I have also heard from Gurbani and other spiritual texts that
God is love.
If God were loving but not love itself, she would have an option not to be loving. One who is loving now may not be loving the next moment.
However, the idea is that God is love. In other words, God is not an individual who loves but a state of love. God is not an entity who moves through different states (as we do), but a state who creates and moves through different entities to experience itself.
God is love, and thus anything not love or loving is not God. Can God be non-God? No, that doesn’t make sense.
Thus, while we humans have the freedom to love or not to love, God doesn’t have that. She loves us unconditionally, wholesomely, endlessly. And she doesn’t have the option of not loving us.
While she is all-powerful – she has created the universes, including us – she is helpless in one regard. She cannot be anything but love.
Thus, God cannot ‘not love’ me. Therein lies my wonder and peace.
