Key passage: John 17:24 (ESV)

24 Father, I desire that they also, whom you have given me, may be with me where I am, to see my glory that you have given me because you loved me before the foundation of the world.

Key Points:

Although creation is the first act we see of God in the scriptures, Creator is not His primary identity.
If such was the case, He would need a creation in order to be who He truly is.
What was God doing before creation?
Before God ever created anything, God was a Father who was loving His Son.
Gods primary eternal identity is a loving Father.
Your Heavenly Father wanted you even if your earthly father didn't.
Those who grew up with an absent dad have a present Heavenly Father.
God the Father is so loving that you cannot know Him without yourself becoming loving.
The God who is love is the Father who sends the Son.
Love is not something God the Father has, or one of His moods, rather He is love!
God is love because from eternity past he had a perfect love for His eternal Son.
Jesus invites us into the same personal intimate relationship that He had with God the Father.
God has made a way for us to call Him Father by adopting us into His family through Jesus!
The Fathers act of adopting us into His family is the greatest evidence of how much He loves us.
God love for us is not a response to our love for him.
God the Father has an eternal uncaused love for each and every one of us.

Other verses:

Psalm 68:5,
1 John 4:7-9,
John 3:35,
John 5:20,
Matthew 6:9,
Ephesians 3:5,
Galatians 4:4-7,
1 John 3:1,
John 15:9,
1 John 4:19,
John 3:16.