5 Surefire Signs to Know if it is Love

This article will open your understanding and make you know if you are in Love or someone is in Love with you. Also it will make know if you are Infatuated with someone or someone is infatuated with you.

First and foremost, let’s define the major terms in this article.
Love and Infatuation.

What is love?

This is the greatest misused word in our culture. People say they love someone, and they end up killing them. That simply tells you they don't understand the true meaning of love. We really have to come back to the original meaning of love emanated from God.

Love is deep and profound. Love is not physical attraction: yes you could be physically attracted to someone, but love goes beyond that. Love is not money, fame or fortune, or sex: love goes beyond that.

The Word of God gives a very Good definition of Love.
Love is patient
Love is kind
Love is not proud
Love is not boastful
Love is not envious
Love is not Self-centered
Love is not easily angered
Love does not keep records of wrong
Love does not delight in evil
Love rejoices with the truth
Love always protects
Love never fails.

Anything outside of the above is not Love.
Love is best seen as Devotion and Action. Love is not exclusively based on how we feel, certainly, our emotions are involved, but they cannot be our only criteria for love.
The Word of God says "We cannot love only by words but with Actions and in truth.
Love focus more on the internal attributes of someone or something , Love see through the content not the container but reverse is the case of Infatuation. Therefore let’s see the meaning of Infatuation.

What is Infatuation?

Infatuation is an intense feeling of attraction for someone or something. I will say Infatuation is the opposite of love not just hatred. Many people often misrepresent infatuation as Love especially in this world where love has been seen as sex.
Infatuation can feel like the real thing but such feeling is temporary because it focuses more on the external attributes. Let see the traits an infatuated individual will exhibit.

An Infatuated individual is not patient, does not see the future, want everything and such an individual is ready to get that thing by all means.
An Infatuated individual is highly emotional and highly self-centered.
An Infatuated individual will get angry and destroy things.

This means infatuation is the right opposite of Love.
Some people say infatuation may lead to true love but is a deceptive trap and dangerous route to love that can lead to pain, disappointment and regret.
That is why the word of God says 'There is a way that seems right to a man but the end thereof is Destruction.

Furthermore, Let’s Differentiate between Love and Infatuation?

--- Love is driven by commitment, devotion; Action While Infatuation is driving by emotions.
--- Love is so patient that it only waits for God's timing While Infatuation wants it now and cannot wait to be satisfied.
--- Love cares mostly about the other person's best interest While Infatuation cares mostly about self-satisfaction.
--- Love executes a host of godly qualities such as peace, joy, trust, kindness, self-control and more godly traits While Infatuation focus on a host of Sins such as lusts, lies, discontent, covetousness and many evil deeds.
--- Love is Sacrificial While Infatuation always receive, it demands but it is not ready to Give.
--- Love is ready to protect from evil While Infatuation only Detest and contest for evil.
--- Love gives you permanent Joy While Infatuation gives you temporary happiness, pain, regret, and disappointment.
--- Love moves you closer to God and His Goodness While infatuation moves you closer to Devil and his evils.
--- Love focuses on the inner contents While Infatuation focus on the outer container.

The difference between Love and Infatuation above will tell you whether you are really in Love or Infatuated with someone.
Finally,
Love is Just, Infatuation is Lust.
Love revolves around God traits and His loving kindness to us that why the Word of God says God is Love.
But infatuation focuses on Worldly attributes.

5 Signs to Know if It Is True Love.

1. God-given Peace and Presence : There is always a form of peace you have within you when it is really true love,you experience calmness all around you,and it is when it is God-given peace,When it is God that give you that man or that woman,you enjoy His Peace and Divine Presence in your relationship,Any relationship you find yourself that make you get hurt and pain,God is not in it: That why He said in His Word"My peace have I given you,not as the world gives...I paraphrased ,Any relationship that wages war against your mind ,Is not From God,so is better you detach from such relationship to avoid getting hurt or disappointments.

3. Joy Unspeakable: True love will make you joyful, you will not just be happy because happiness is temporary but Joy is permanent, you are only happy because of what is happening around you or outside you but you remain Joyful because of what you are feeling within you and around you, Joy, is the combination of good internal countenance and external countenance. It is joy that makes you smile even when the relationship is experiencing a hard time, it is joy that keeps you going even when the distance between you two is a barrier to seeing each other.

3. Effective Communication: True love makes you communicate effectively, No restrictions of words, when you feel you are in Love and you find it difficult to tell your lover some things or truth about yourself, it is not true love at all.

4. Sacrifice: True love can sacrifice Anything, true love is that love that can give anything even life, it is that love that God has that He gave his only begotten Son for the sins of the World. When your lover find it difficult to sacrifice something you need, it is not true love.

5. Action: True loves acts. True love is active and not passive, true love is not just by words as the word of God says but by Action and by truth.

Finally, they are many signs to know if it is true love but I think these are the major ones that should be our focus if we are really looking for true love.
I hope you find this article helpful and Needful, you can use it judiciously to know if you are in Love or Infatuated and to know the Signs of True Love.

Article written by Omowunmi Josephine

5 Surefire Signs to Know if it is Love