The love of money.
The love of power.
These loves are not of God. For love to be of God, it must be a true love, and it must be a love of something that is true.
The free love revolution is not true, because Love is exclusive. You cannot Love many things. To say "I love humanity" is meaningless-love your neighbor, mow his lawn when he is sick, make him dinner when he is poor. To use the word without the action is a lie.
"Like" is a word we scramble up and confuse for love. I like coffee, I like sunsets, I like barbeque. I have probably said that I love them-but I would never climb a mountain of thorns for them, give up all my physical possessions for them, or die for them.
I love my family.
I love my God.
In a way, I love my country.
God is Love, but God does not love everything.
God loves everyone.
God does not love murder.
God does not love the war that is in each man's soul.
Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.
It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.
Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth.
It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
-St. Paul, First Letter to the Corinthians
