"This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers...let us not love with words or tongue but in actions and in truth. This then is how we know that we belong to the truth, and how we set our hearts at rest in his presence whenever our hearts condemn us. For God is greater than our hearts, and he knows everything." I John 3:16,18-20

"This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us. And if we know that he hears us - whatever we ask - we know that we have what we asked of him." I John 5:14&15

Jesus Christ is the highest standard of love. His love evokes both joy and fear in my heart. It's a consuming love; He's a consuming fire. His love will leave me with nothing of myself, ruined for anything less than Him. He is exactly what I need.