Love Is Not Taught

My beloved brothers, let us love one another, for love comes from God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. (1 John 4:7)

After the child of a brother in Christ was born, he was asked, “Now that you have become a father, do you love your child?” The answer was: “A week before I became a father, I kept thinking about how I should love my child. But as soon as my child was born, the moment I saw my child, my heart naturally went out and I simply loved my child.” We see here how human love arises from an inner awareness; it is not taught from outside. In the same way, all the children of God who have been bought with the blood of the Lamb and have received the life of God and been baptized into the Body of Christ cannot help but be moved from within to love one another as members of the same Body.