Love Is...

....if you try to abandon the pursuit of your full and lasting joy, you cannot love people or please God

....If love is the overflow of joy in God which gladly meets the needs of others, and if God loves such joyful givers, then this joy in giving is a Christian duty, and the effort not to pursue it is sin.

John Piper. DESIRING GOD: MEDITATIONS OF A CHRISTIAN HEDONIST.