The world around us does not truly understand what love means separate and apart from God. God himself is love and without that model, mankind is left to construct its own definition which falls terribly short. When we love as God instructs and models, then we understand its true sacrificial nature, contrasted to the selfish gratification of the world's definition. Recognition of the difference will demand one of two outcomes - To either pick up your cross and bear it or be crushed by the weight of it... Which will YOU choose?