There are three important truths every believer needs to know concerning the love of Christ. Those truths are simply: we are born of love, we are possessors of love and we are to be instruments of love.  "God so loved the world that he gave...." (John 3:16). The very idea of giving is at the center and heart of love. Love was never intended to be contained. It will never find fulfillment by holding on to what was meant to be passed on.

       There is a power we possess that is stronger than any force known to man. It is what bought our salvation. It is what empowers us to live the life we are to live for God. It is what holds everything together. And yet, so many people are clueless to its potential.

       John, in his writings, tells us that God is love. Not that he has love, or that somehow he contains love, but rather that he is love...period!   There is nothing in God or that is of him that is not first, love. In Paul's prayer in Ephesians chapter three, he prays, "That God would grant you, according to his riches in glory, to be strengthened with might, by his Spirit in the inner man, that Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; and that ye may be rooted and grounded in love, May be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height; and to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might to filled with all the fullness of God" (Ephesians 3:16-19). There are two very important truths mentioned in this passage concerning love. First of all, Paul prays that through an increase of God's mighty strength and power, our inward man would become infused with the life of Christ and the love of God. And that then, and only then, would we be able to comprehend (or apprehend, to take hold of; to seize; to make as one's own) the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge (or is beyond our intellectual capabilities to flow and function as Christ did). The second truth is that the love of Christ can only come into complete operation in our life by our being settled in the love of God. You will never be able to love as Christ loved until you know and believe the love that God has for you.

       It's very simple. Some folks are familiar with God's love, but they haven't personally, intimately, and significantly experienced it for themselves. John said, "We have known and believed the love that God hath to us..." (1 John 4:16).   It requires us knowing, firsthand, the love that God has for us before we are able to believe in it.

       If you are born of love, if you are a possessor of love, then look down on the inside and get acquainted with what you are and what you possess, so that you can become an instrument of the love wherewith you are loved!

       The moment you allow your heart to experience the full dimension of the love of Christ, then it will begin to take you over, until God himself will become so evident in your life that you will literally become a force reckoned with that carries the power to bring change into this world.*