THE EVIDENCE OF LOVE: HOW DO YOU KNOW IT IS LOVE?

Having established that God is love, and that it is impossible to truly claim to have love without having the very personality of love, which is God, we must now ask an important question:

After receiving the personality of God, what are the ways love shows itself? What are the signs you see and say, "Okay, this is love"?

Because it is possible for somebody to claim to have received the personality but still not be walking in the reality of love.

The Bible gives us the ways of love in the book of 1 Corinthians 13:4–7.

Love is patient, love is kind, love is not envious, love is not boastful, love is not arrogant, love is not rude, love does not insist on its own way, is not resentful, does not rejoice in evil, love looks at the best in things, and love endures things.

Now, look at these things and check them against all you've heard about love, what you proclaim to be love, or even those things somebody has done to you and claimed were acts of love.

Do they tally?

Where patience was needed, did you see someone who claimed to love you being patient with you? Or were you patient with the one you said you love?

Were you boastful to the one you said you love? Or were you ungrateful enough?

Did you acknowledge you were wrong rather than rejoicing in it and saying, "This is who I am"?

There are many ways love has been interpreted, but I tell you, if you follow the Scriptures, you can never be wrong.