There is only one way we can learn anything about love … God is Love,” so it’s only by, and through the Holy Ghost that we will ever experience true love. Without Him, we will only find lust, vanity, and physical desire and ultimately utter emptiness.

It is only the Holy Ghost who can take away our cold and stony heart, that is in your natural flesh, and give us a new heart, and create in us a new and living spirit, which is the only thing in us that is able to comprehend the love of God.

This love of God is as necessary to our spirit, as food, shelter and clothing is to our natural bodies, in order that we, the manifested children of God, might live the abundant life in Jesus Christ here in this present world We must have it to experience any lasting loving relationships in this world

Human love must be based upon the eternal unconditional, love of God! The truth is that Jesus Christ is the manifested love of God he is the love of God come invisible flesh Jesus Christ is the foundation on which all our relationships must rest. He’s the one that binds them all together. Without Him in our hearts there can never be any real sense of a loving relationship, in our marriages, families, as well as in our churches.

It’s imperative that a born again child of God, who has the love of God in his heart, in turn, exercise love openly as charity. If charity is not exercised in our lives, we will suffer a profound, and negative effect both naturally, as well as spiritually. It must be exercised in our marriage relationship. Ephesians 5:12 says, “Husbands love your wives,” [in what way?] “even as Christ also loved the Church, and gave Himself for it,” Without the love of God, a husband can never truly love his wife.

And again, ‘Wives submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.” This is impossible without an inner heartfelt, heart experienced, love of God, which is imputed into the heart of the family. Each member of our family, includes our church families is to love one another with that very same unreserved love, which is grace, which enables us to love, honor, consider one another’s welfare above our own, and to stay at each other’s side through better or worse, riches, or poorer for the rest of our lives.

It takes Godly love for our children, to be able to obey their parents in all things; for this is well pleasing unto the Lord. Col. 3:20. Look around you and you will see our children face enormous distractions in the world, vying for their attention from spiritual things. A parent needs the loving hand of God to guide them, and lead them to become strong, healthy and loving adults.

We can look and see the results of the lack of family love in the families of our nation and see the devastation that has resulted. Beloved, God has designed charity for the family, in order for it to fully function in love; a real family cannot exist without love.

God is the only source of love in the universe, and if you are one of His, He has already placed His love in you and He gives us a desire for it. He alone, teaches us to give love to each other. This is the only way we will ever know the answer to what love really is

Are you having a hard time feeling that love? The apostle James said, in James 4:2-3,1 that “ye have not, because ye ask not.” We need to go to God, and He will bring our feeble feelings into line with the fact of the love He has placed in us. Remember, it’s God alone, who by his rich and abounding grace, through the new birth, gives us the ability to love. Without His love abiding inside us, all of our attempts to exercise love will end up leading us into utter darkness.

The Greek word for love is the word, Agape, which is an active moving and biding love feast. This is the very essence of what, and who God is. And the Greek word for charity is this very same wore Agape.

Looking at I Corinthians 13:1-13, the apostle Paul shows us the love of God in action, as charity in our lives. As we continue to read this letter, we will notice that charity is love. God places his love in our hearts, and then we turn around and express that love as charity. We feel the active love of God, and we express that love as charity. And as charity is love, that is openly manifested toward others.

Paul goes on to say, that even if we are able to speak “with the voice of man and of angels,” and yet we have no charity in our hearts, we are no more than a “sounding” or clanking brass or a tinkling cymbal.” We are no more than chimes tinkling in the wind. We may have a soothing sound, but we are totally useless, giving no meaning, and possessing no understanding.

He goes on to say, that even if I had the gift of prophecy, and have the understanding of all mysteries and have been filled with great faith, yet have no charity in your hearts, that is all of little or no use to us, or anyone else. And even if we’re willing to give everything that we own to feed the poor, and give our bodies to be burned with fire, yet, exercise no charity in our hearts, we will never come to realize it’s real blessing.

“Charity suffereth long, and is kind” charity is patient, and tender, considerate, pleasant, compassionate, and generous. It forgives all wrongs done, keeping no records, not just “till seven times, but till “seventy times seven.” Matt. 18: 21-22. That’s four hundred and ninety times a day.

If we live our lives without love’s patience, we will be restless, irritable, violent, and resentful. We damage our inner makeup, and rob ourselves of true joy.

We then find that we lose our sense of well being, as well as our ability to be sympathetic toward others when they are in their distresses. We cause the good nature of the spirit within us to become dead and useless to us. Patience is said to be a womanly or motherly characteristic, it’s the Hallmark of true motherhood, as well as all parenthood.