Love Connection

Love on an earthly level is directly dependent on a person's love for God. I can only love as Christ loves me if I understand being loved unconditionally. I can love holy and purely when I understand holy and pure love. The person who understands God's love--and is growing deeper in His love for God--will himself, as the Spirit gains more and more control of His life, love others as God loves him. The person who is struggling with his understanding of how much God loves him, will struggle to love others as God loves. The one who loves God will reflect God's love. His love will be accepting because he knows that he is accepted in the Beloved. His love will be patient because he knows God's patient love for him. His love will be unconditional and faithful because he basks in the unconditional, faithful love of God. His love will be instantaneously forgiving because he knows the full and ready forgiveness of his Lord. His love, and his ability to love, will deepen and deepen as his understanding of the infinite, eternal love of God deepens and deepens as well.
So, if some of you reading this are anxious to find that someone special, be patient. Look for the man or woman deeply in love with their Savior. The person you marry will be able to love you only as deeply as he or she loves Him. If someone reading this is struggling with love in a marriage, it is your love for Christ and your understanding of His love for you that is the issue. Christ never falls out of love with you, you fall out of love with Him through willful disobedience--and it is reflected in your ability to love as He loves in your earthly relationships.
We love Him because he first loved us--that's the love of grace and mercy. We love others that they might experience and know in a visible, tangible way, His love. And if you want to experience such love, find the man or woman who understands such love. And if you have already made the commitment to love someone that way, do it. Don't love as Judas "loved."