Revelation does not try to tell us what God is in himself, but what he is for us. It does not intend to manifest its nature, its being and its identity, but, rather, its behavior with us. It has, therefore, a meaning that we could call 'functional'. By saying, then, that "God is Love" (1 Jn 4:16), he simply states that God loves us. And that love is the only reason and the sole reason for all his actions with respect to us. He creates us through love, he preserves us in being for love, he chooses us and calls us in Christ for love, and for love predestines us, from all eternity, to be his children in his only Son, by a real configuration and mystical identification with the. Of course, by manifesting what God is for us, he also tells us, and at the same time, what God is in himself. Your behavior with us, reveals, in fact, your true identity.