Can we comprehend the love of Jesus?

There are a lot of verses in the Bible about love and Jesus and some of my favorites are in 1 John.

1 John 3:16 - 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.

1 John 3:18 - Dear children, let us not love with words or tongue but with actions and in truth.

1 John 4:7-12 - Dear friends, let us love one another for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love. This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through Him. This is love; not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. Dear friends, since God so loved us us, we also ought to Love one another. No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us.

1 John 4:18 - There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love.

1 John 4:19 - We love because he first loved us.

So do we really know what love is? Do we know how to give true unconditional love?

In our culture the word love has become so over used and so temporary. We constantly hear things like: I love my new car, I love Mexican food, I love this, I love that. But that love is not the LOVE that Jesus showed for us when He died on the cross. That love is not the LOVE that God showed when he sent Jesus to live with us.

Do we really know what love is? What on this earth right now at this time in our culture can even come close to comparing? Love of your spouse? It should, but we live in a culture where over 50% experience divorce. That couldn't have been love like Jesus LOVED. Love of a child? It should, but how do we then explain the millions of orphans in the world?

I know what love feels like to me and I know who I love...but can I even dare compare that to the LOVE of Jesus? The LOVE of Father God who sent Jesus to wash us clean so that we can come home one day?

Can we comprehend the love of Jesus?