God's Love Alone

Since God is love, true love is all God’s own,
because He’s love, His love is all there is,
love’s no one else’s, it is God’s alone,
all love that’s true and good is only His.

Wherever true love is, God is there too,
wherever God goes, His love goes along,
God’s only love, with love shot through and through,
and those who truly love to God belong.

Love is not independent, it is owned,
God owns it, and without Him love’s not real,
like life and like ourselves, His love is loaned,
our worldly love without His, we just feel.

When we love true, it is God’s love we share,
but love felt in our sin, His love’s not there.

                         by Pete Voelz     6/23/14