God is Love

I recently heard a pastor brilliantly explain some of the issues with the infamous phrase "God is love". You've likely heard this phrase hundreds and thousands of times, many of you have probably said it yourselves. Perhaps you have a bumper sticker on your car declaring it. The phrase never sat right with me. I always think "yes, God is loving, so I don't disagree with attributing Love to Gods Character. But , as this pastor brilliantly pointed out, saying "God is Love" doesn't quite encompass everything else God is. God is loving, yes...but God is also Holy, God is also Just, God is also Sovereign, God is also jealous, God is also gracious. And this list goes on. Saying God IS love, is saying God equals love, while ignoring every other aspect of who God is. It so hyper focuses on one of Gods attributes while ignoring the rest that we begin to worship "Love" itself rather than who God is. Like I said, brilliant sermon. This pastor unpacked and laid to rest exactly what it was about this phrase that never sat right with me. This sermon helped open my eyes to the another catchy mainstream phrase that never sat right with me for similar reasons . "Black Lives Matter." I wholeheartedly agree that Black lives matter, but I also recognize that as people hyperfocus on only one ethnicity of lives, they completely ignore injustice all around them. The counter I often hear from people who disagree is "If only one house is one fire in a neighborhood, you wouldn't say that all houses matter". But injustice isn't limited to one skin color...many houses ARE on fire all around you...you're just ignoring them. The glaring hypocrisy that Black lives matter as a group has ignored the abortion stats on babies in majority-black communities, even advocating for them...or the glaring hypocrisy that they stay silent when so many black lives are literally murdered outside of ANY police involvement. The glaring hypocrisy that they don't speak up when black people are murdered and some people won't tell the police who did it so the murderers never get sentenced. .Like I said, injustice IS everywhere, the whole neighborhood IS on fire, we're just selectively choosing not to see it. The glaring hypocrisy that in order to proceed with the movement, one must completely ignore the statistics that each year more unarmed white people are killed by police than unarmed black people. Look up the stats for yourself from a credible source. Washington Post has been tracking for years. Something is not sitting right with me...as I'm watching pastors and believers around me capitulate to mainstream culture citing the empathy of Jesus as their reasoning for doing so. And I agree with the compassion of Jesus, just as I agree that God IS loving, and yes that Black lives DO matter. BUT may I also point out, although it's not culturally popular to do so, that Jesus was also absolutely savage when it came to speaking out against hypocrisy? So will any of you?? Will any of you widen your scope and care for the entire neighborhood homes in flames around you and admit that ALL LIVES DO MATTER?? Or are we all just going to ignore everything else and do what's popular? Just my observations...cause the hypocrisy is pretty obvious. Of course, I could be totally wrong and the Lord can square up with me as He sees fit. I'm seeking, I'm praying...and I keep coming up short on following this cultures catch phrases. ....so ya'll can "cash me outside" or the Lord can "cash me in eternity". He's the judge, I'm just one tiny person trying to follow where He's leading me.