John 15: 12 ¹² This is my commandment: Love each other in the same way I have loved you.

 

I think pretty much everyone who knows God at all would easily say that His love has been the best love we have ever experienced... although bad things still happen to us sometimes or to our loved ones.. that doesn't change the love and protection and provision we have had from God all of our lives.. He has loved us when we are unloveable... He loved us when no one else has.. His love has been constant and unconditional despite things we do or say or the way we act...

 

would we say that we love others as God loves us? I doubt if we could... yes.. maybe one or two people.. surely not everyone.. surely not all the time.. our love and actions of love are too dependent on our feelings... yet Jesus says the only commandment He gives us is to love one another the same way that God loves us.. because if we do that... we would be fulfilling all the other commandments..