"The Love of God"

This is a very touchy subject, I mean that literally. I think there was a TV show once that was called 'Touched by an Angel', but I don't think I ever watched it. I guess they would not have wanted to call it 'Touched by God', because that would have seemed too much like a religious show. But, in all seriousness, the Love which we have been given is heaven sent, in more ways than we might understand. If we have any love within us, it is usually just skin deep, and is easily taken out of the way once our skin is offended. Even valiant and heroic men or women have been so, not because they had more love than others, but because the love which they did have was deeper and harder to be compromised. Take Peter for example, in John 13:37, Peter made a statement which may or may not have been from his heart, "Peter said unto Him, Lord, why can not I follow thee now? I will lay down my life for Thy sake". Well, we know how that went, don't we? Does that mean that Peter did not have a deep love for Jesus? No, I don't think that is the case at all; but rather that the love which Peter had for Jesus was rooted in the wrong place. The reason that I say that is because of what Peter does in the Garden when Jesus is arrested, which we can see in John 18:10, "Then Simon Peter having a sword drew it, and smote the high priest's servant, and cut off his right ear. The servant's name was Malchus". You must know, it took a whole lot of courage (or stupidity) to draw a sword in the presence of all those that came upon Jesus with weapons; yet only hours later, Peter would deny that he even knew Jesus. As I said, his love was rooted in the wrong place, because Peter's love, even after his acknowledgement of who Jesus was in John 6:68 & 69, was based upon the life which he knew, this life, the here and now for eternity. The way he saw things, Jesus was going to establish His kingdom here on this earth, for all eternity; defeating the Romans, and establishing the Jewish nation back to it's greatest spender, once and for all. Not exactly the kind of thing that is accomplished by dying on a cross, now is it? But, when we love based upon the truth! And what is truth? For one: The Love of God is truth, and can not be denied... "For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly. For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: yet peradventure for a good man some will dare to die. But God commandeth His love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us." (Romans 5:6-8)