Love is the greatest thing

"Love is the greatest thing that God can give us; for himself is love; and it is the greatest thing we can give to God; for it will also give ourselves and carry with it all that is ours. The apostle calls it the band of perfection; it is the old, and it is the new, and it is the great commandment, and it is all the commandments; for it is the fulfilling of the law. It does the work of all other graces without any instrument but its own immediate virtue. For as the love to sin makes a man sin against all his own reason, and all the discourses of wisdom, and all the advices of his friends, and without temptation, and without opportunity, so does the love of God; it makes a man chaste without the laborious arts of fasting and exterior disciplines, temperate in the midst of feasts, and is active enough to choose it without any intermedial appetites, and reaches at glory through the very heart of grace without any other arms but those of love. It is a grace that loves God for himself, and our neighbours for God. The consideration of God�s goodness and bounty, the experience of those profitable and excellent emanations from him, may be, and most commonly are, the first motive of our love; but when we are once entered, and have tasted the goodness of God, we love the spring for its own excellency, passing from passion to reason, from thanking to adoring, from sense to spirit, from considering ourselves to an union with God: and this is the image and little representation of heaven; it is beatitude in picture, or rather the infancy and beginnings of glory." - Jeremy Taylor

The full circle of love - absolutely nothing can separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.  Therefore, love him with all your being.

A message to those of us in the free world - for the sake of the gospel there are brothers and sisters in Christ who face death all day long and are considered sheep for the slaughter.  But who will separate any of us from the love of Christ?

Maybe the obvious answer is that Satan would like to try - the accuser of the saints.  He will try to use trouble, hardship, persecution, famine, nakedness, danger or sword to make believers think they are separated from God's love.