Love Facts
1Jo 4:7-8 Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God. He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.
God is love. Therefore all love originates with God. Love is not something you can produce, but simply something you receive from God.
Gal 5:22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, ....
It's the fruit of the Spirit of God's influence on the heart & life of a believer. It's the natural by product of the new life from above in the heart of every truly born again believer. When we open ourselves to the influence of that new life within us, only then can we truly love anyone. The more influence on our hearts & lives this new life gains, the more capable of loving other believers we become.
Joh 13:35 By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.
Every true disciple of Jesus Christ is capable of love, but very few truly love anyone simply because they won't yield to the influence of that new life within them. More often than not, desire is mistaken for love; however desire focuses on self. It seeks to gratify self. The focus is all wrong. The agape God kind of love focusses outward putting others ahead of ourselves. It's truly a matter of focal points. The Godless life focusses inward, while the true christian life is focussed outward.