I John 4:10 “Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.”
The infinite value and true omnipotence of “love” is “not that we loved God, but that he loved us”! Furthermore, it is not our “love” for God that chose us or that saved us to Eternal Heaven, but “Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour” (Ephesians 5:2) and it is “our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God, even our Father, which hath loved us, and hath given us everlasting consolation and good hope through grace” (II Thessalonians 2:16) and our “God” “hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began” (II Timothy 1:9). Because we still have a carnal nature that is constantly pulling at us and tempting us, we tend to wane and slip in acting upon and showing our “love” to “God”; but, our Sovereign “God” never wanes nor slips in His “great love” (Ephesians 2:4), His “everlasting love” (Jeremiah 31:3) for us. Because “God” is the Perfect Father, He will certainly chasten us, “For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.” (Hebrews 12:6)! His chastening is sure evidence that our “God” loves us; for, “if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons” (Hebrews 12:8)! Furthermore, we would have no “love” for “God” if He didn’t first “love us”; for, “We love him, because he first loved us.” (1 John 4:19)! That “love” first appears within us when He gives us Spiritual Birth (John 3:1-8). It is indescribable joy and peace “to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge” (Ephesians 3:19).