Genuine, caring love for others -- even people that we are not naturally attracted to -- is a sign that a power beyond ourselves is at work within us.
It's something that a mere law based performance can never manufacture. It's something that comes from God. If we've found the love of Christ, He will lead us to obey His law of love, in verity.
A person demonstrated the gift of the spirit thus: The fruit of the spirit is spoken of as one -- Consider a orange. It has a peel and inside are many sections, but it is one fruit. Take the peel away and the inside sections dry up.
Love is like that peel, it surrounds all the others, it contains all the others (peace, joy, etc) if we lose love, we loose the whole fruit. The others all dry up without love.
1 Cor. 14
13:1 Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not love, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. 13:2 And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 13:3 And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not love, it profits me nothing.
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