True Love

Imagine my surprise when I learned my Island neighbor had been swimming in the [February] unheated pool!  Her husband explained it like this: ma'am, we're from Michigan.  In other words, cold is relative.  Well, so is true love.  The Apostle John wrote eloquently of God's Love, and Its Standard for all manner of love.  "In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins." (1 John 4:10).  There's the Perfect measure of love.  If God could pour out love on the most wretched of wretches - you and I - then we have full capacity to love.  John further explains as we abide (dwell) in God, true love is perfected in us so we can love rightly and completely. How we love is relative or [as we say in the South] akin to The Father's love.  True love is always rooted in Him. Are you finding it difficult to love as God loves?  You better check your roots.