Love is a natural emotion within families and yet God knew that even in intimate relationships we can
The Bible makes very clear the priority God places on love in our lives and characters. In Mark 12:28-31, Jesus tells us that the most important command is to love God and the second is to love others. John 13:34-35 tells us that love is the evidence upon which the world judges our connection to Christ. Romans 13:10 says that love is the fulfillment of the law. In I Corinthians 13:13 Paul asserts that love is more important than faith and hope, and earlier in the same chapter, he says that any other spiritual offering in the absence of love is worthless, a somewhat shockingly ponderable truth. Love is the very DNA of God and it is love that makes us resemble Him as His children (Ephesians 5:1-2).
There are several reasons why love must be taught rather than instinctively experienced.
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The world offers a wrong definition of love. It suggests that love is a bit outside of our control; that it just happens, that we fall into and out of it. As a result, we only love the lovable
