Today were going to Learn that God First Loved you, so that you would love Him and be enabled through His love, to others as He loves you.

The worth of a life is measured by how much love it has. Everything else is nothing, nothing at all, totally indifferent, totally unimportant…Life is really not worth living at all without love…‘Love is as strong as death’ (Song of Songs, 8:6).

Beloved, let us love one another, for love springs from God; and he who loves others is born of God and is coming progressively to know and understand God, to perceive and recognize and get a better and clearer knowledge of Him.
‭‭1 John‬ ‭4:7‬ ‬

God is love, and he who dwells and continues in love dwells and continues in God, and God dwells and continues in him. In this union and communion with Him, love is brought to completion and attains perfection with us, that we may have confidence for the day of judgment [with assurance and boldness to face Him, because as He is, so are we in this world.

There is no fear in love, dread does not exist, but full-grown complete, pure, true, perfect love turns fear out of doors and expels every trace of terror! For fear brings with it the thought of punishment, and so he who is afraid has not reached the full maturity of love [is not yet grown into love's complete perfection]. We love Him, because He first loved us. 1 John‬ ‭4:16-19‬ ‬

Love is actively doing what the Lord prefers, with Him by His power at Work in you and Directing you. True loving is always defined by God – as a "discriminating affection which involves choice and selection, persuaded by Him and empowered by Him.

For us who are in Christ Jesus FAITH is activated and energized and expressed and working through LOVE counts in all Things. Galatians ‭5:6‬

LOVE is ALWAYS the Gift from God, (John 3:16) the manifestation of His Presence in you, actively doing what the Lord perfers by His Power at work in you, and directing you by His Divine Persuasion which the Lord continuously in-births in you, so you can know what God prefers. – Faith – the persuasion of His Will.

Both Love and Faith are always received from God, and never generated by us.

The Love of God has been poured out in our hearts by the Holy Spirit who was given to us. Romans ‭5:5‬

God’s Love is patient and kind. His Love is not jealous or boastful or proud or rude. It does not demand its own way. It is not irritable, and it keeps no record of being wronged. It does not rejoice about injustice but rejoices whenever the truth wins out. Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance.”
‭‭1 Corinthians‬ ‭13:5-7‬‬

Love is a manifestation of the transcendental presence of God Himself. If God is love then it cannot be found anywhere else except in God, and incarnated Christ Jesus, the Lord of love.

God is love: that is to say not a human attitude, a conviction or a deed, but God Himself is love. Only he who knows God knows what love is; it is not the other way round; it is not that we first of all by nature know what love is and therefore know also what God is. No one knows God unless God reveals Himself to him. And so no one knows what love is except in the self-revelation of God. Love, then, is the revelation of God. And the revelation of God is Jesus Christ… (1 John 4:9).6

If God is love, according to this powerful testimony, then love can be found only in his ultimate expression of incarnating presence and death of Christ as well as His glorious personal post-resurrecting communion with us. Love is the revelation of Jesus Christ.

He First Loved You
The reason you will love others best when you love God most is that love in its truest, purest form only comes from God, because God is love (1 John 4:7–8). Love is a fundamental part of his nature. You are only able to love him or anyone else because he first loved us (1 John 4:19). You are only able to give freely to others what we have received freely from him.

When You Love God Most, You Will Love Others Best.

The apostle John puts it bluntly: “He who does not love his brother whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen (1 John 4:20).

Our love for each other is an indicator of the place God is holding in our hearts.
God is very good at designing things His way: our faith is revealed by our works (James 2:18), our creeds are revealed by our deeds (Luke 6:46), and our love for him is revealed by our love for others (1 John 4:20).

He makes it very hard for us to fake it. Since the greatest and second greatest commandments are involved in these things, we know they are important to God.

The best thing you can do today is to take a transparent and honest look an honest, lingering look at the way you love others, and allow what you see to have its effect on us, and ask God what he would have us do in response.