Is God Loving if He is Just Kind only?

Kindness, love, I hear these words so often in our culture that I wonder if it has any real meaning anymore I mean with all the evil and madness in the world it's hard to think that people are still kind and loving. I run into so many people who love to talk about the kindness of strangers, loved ones,themselves and mainly the kindness of God. One thing I always notice is that when I'm talking to strangers and we start talking spiritual matters they love to talk about how they love God and they love to profess that 'He is just kind and loving and that a kind God wouldn't dare punish anyone or send people to hell' not going any further than that and then wanting to end the conversation. Now I'm not saying God is not those aspects of love because he is but there's more to God's character than that. It makes me constantly wonder, do people have a real concept of true love or understand how real love works. I guess what I'm trying to say is, we cant ignore the fact that we live in a post-modern culture where people don't want to believe in objective truth or realities but instead their own subjective truth and opinions especially when it comes to the subject of God's love. I find that the majority of society have made up their own view of God's love, taking the real attributes of love and divorcing them which in the end is not the God that we find in the scriptures of the Christian bible but instead a false idol god that has been created in the minds of our culture who in reality actually despise and hate the true God of the bible. When most people make the statement that god is love, they are not really considering all of the attributes of his love: his kindness, his mercy, how he is just, eternal, sovereign and holy. They love to talk about the love of God but are strangers to the true God of love. The kind of love that our culture likes is a self indulgent good-natured type of love that's really just patterned after our own human emotions. A love that's just "kind" and nothing else? I mean who wouldnt want that that type of love you know in the back of our minds we all have this thought as C.S. Lewis puts it, "What would really satisfy us would be a god who said of anything we happened to like doing, 'what does it matter so long as they are contended'? We want, in fact not so much a Father in Heaven as a grandfather in heaven-a senile benevolence who just gives us what we want for the sake of our ultimate happiness". So I guess the underlying question becomes, Is God "love" if he is just "kind" and nothing else. The answer would be certainly not.

Let me explain, let me use the example of a mother and her child. Let's say that this mother showed love to her son by being "kind" only, allowing the child to do as it pleased because the ultimate goal of kindness is to allow the greatest oppurtunity for happiness to it's object regardless if that happiness results in pain to the object. Now let's say this child wanted to run and play in the middle of a busy street, if kindness is the only attribute of love that the mother shows then that type of love demands that she allow child to run in the street in order that the child be happy. Now any person in society would scream in disgust at a mother like that and say that she is not showing real love but actually is showing neglect and is unfit but yet ironically this same society shakes it's fist at God because he doesn't give them whatever they want. Real love does seek our happiness thru kindness but it also seeks our ultimate good and safety, real love hates what is opposite of itself and strives to perfect it. What we don't realize is that to ask that God's love be satisfied with us in the wretched state that we're in is to ask that God should stop being God. God's love because of who he is and what he is must in the nature of things be impeded and repelled by stains in our present character, and because his love for us is so great He must labour to make us lovable.

I'll end this thought with another C.S. Lewis quote from his book, "The Problem of Pain","When Christianity says that God loves man, it means that God "loves" man: not that he has some 'disinterested', because really indifferent, concern for our welfare, but that, in awful and surprising truth, we are the objects of his love. You asked for a loving God: you have one. The great spitit you so lightly invoked, the 'lord of terrible aspect', is present: not a senile benevolence that drowsily wishes you to be happy in your own way, not the cold philanthropy of a conscientious magistrate, nor the care of a host who feels responsible for the comfort of his guests, but the consuming fire himself, the Love that made the worlds, persistent as the artist's love for his work, venerable as a father's love for a child, jealous, inexorable, exacting as love between the sexes. What we would here and now call our 'happiness' is not the end God chiefly has in view: but when we are such as He can love without impediment, we shall in fact be happy!"