What is Love?

So God has been speaking to me about loving Him, my wife, my family, my friends, my co workers, strangers, etc. I can love my wife like Christ loves the church, with a holy love, but I can I love Christ the way I love my wife.

While on vacation Melinda asked me about a song that talked about being "in love" with God. I've always thought that being "in love" as worldly. Did God want our worldly love? I thought God deserved more than that. Melinda didn't know at the time that I had written a song about her that was also what I thought was a reflection of God's love for us, but God is showing me that it should also be about my love for Him. John said something to the affect of that being "in love" is the love we know, the love we have to offer and shouldn't we offer that to God? (sorry John if I'm not quoting you exactly :)

I want to love Him deeper. The deeper I love Him the deeper and more complete my love for others will be. The more I can feel His love/spirit guide me. I want to love Him so much that I would cross any obstacle to be in His presence. After all He has done that for me.

Deuteronomy 6:5 "You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might"

We are comanded to do this, but moreover the Spirit in me DESIRES it. It is in the Holy Spirits character to love the Father and the Son unconditionally. My flesh, and laziness gets in the way.

Lord help me to love you, my wife, my family, my friends, and my neighbors they way you love me....

I'd walk across the desert
Parched and dry
To be in your arms
To catch a glimpse of your smile

I'd swim across the sea
Ravaged by the waves
Just to be with you
The rest of my days

I'm falling in love
From heights up above
There is no end to my fall
I want to heed love's call

I'd fly across the sky
Through the clouds
Just to feel your touch
And to hear you laugh aloud

I'd walk across the tundra
In the freezing cold
And at the end of my journey
You'd be the one to hold.

I'm falling in love
From heights up above
There is no end to my fall
I want to heed to love's call