As long as love is only a word in your life, you cannot really experience it. When love becomes more than a word, the experience is reality. Love must be experienced and received. Love must speak and act to be known. Make love an experience in your life. When you experience love, you experience God. "God is love" (1 John 4:8).
For us to experience God's love, we must understand how God communicates His love to us. He proves His love for us. He gives His love to us. In the Bible, God communicates His love for us. At the cross of Jesus, God proves His love for us. Through the Holy Spirit, God gives His love to us. We are able to experience His love in our hearts.
You experience love when you experience God. Reading about love is never enough. Without experience, singing about God's love is only empty words. Hearing a minister talk about God's love is only information, unless we experience it. God's love is known personally only through experience.
Experience God's love to share it with others. God desires to love others through you. God's Spirit works through you to show His love for others. So many will not read a Bible, but they will read your life. What you say and do is important. Others can understand love through you. "But if we love each other, God lives in us, and his love has been brought to full expression through us" (1 John 4:12, NLT).
