Hell is the place of rejecting God’s love. It is the haunt of demons. It is the failure to live in love’s flow: it is the way we make for ourselves a hell in the midst of God’s creation. One has said that hell is to finally realize that what you really rejected was love. God is love. It is never theologically correct to say, “God is wrath”; that is not His nature. Holy-love is His essence. Dr. William Greathouse used to say that “wrath is the underside of God’s love”. It took me years to sort out how true the statement is. Wrath is the natural consequence of rejecting God’s overtures of love, grace and mercy; it is what I feel when I act against love. It is painful; it is loneliness at its worse. It is hell. When we don’t receive love and we will not give love, we are not living in a heavenly place. Come away from that place; it is not the future you want. Come to a land of love; milk and honey flow there. Heaven’s music is there; it is the music for which your soul longs.
“Dear friends, let us continue to love one another, for love comes from God. Anyone who loves is a child of God and knows God. But anyone who does not love does not know God, for God is love. God showed how much he loved us by sending his one and only Son into the world so that we might have eternal life through him. This is real love—not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as a sacrifice to take away our sins. Dear friends, since God loved us that much, we surely ought to love each other.” 1 John 4:7-12 (NLT)
