“God so loved the world that He gave His only Son…”, what strange paradox seems to lie at the heart of God’s love. So strange we often don’t even see it. God loved the world so much that He sent the Son in order to die, to save the world from…. God? What a mistake we make in trying to constrain the nature of God’s love to our own human understanding of it. On the fourth Sunday of Advent (Love) we allow 1 John 4:7-18 to shed light on John 3:16-17 and teach us not about human love but God’s love; toward us, and in us.