THE PATH OF DESCENT

Jesus commanded us to love, so we know it is not just a feeling, since you cannot command feelings. Love is a decision.

Jesus did not say:

When you get healed, love;
When you grow up, love; when you feel loving, love;
When you get it together and have dealt with all your mother/father/husband/children wounds, then you are able to love.
No, the commandment for all of us is to LOVE now. 

I think we know the love of God is within us when we ourselves can “do love” much more than when people tell us we are loveable (that just feels good!). We can always disbelieve the second, but the first is an unexplainable power from Beyond ourselves. We know we are being used, and the “Living Water is flowing” through us (John 7:38).