"Showing Christian Love"

Based off of a random subject switch with Dr. Muhammad Islam during principals of Finance. Honestly, no idea what came before this, I had fallen into the pre-stage sleep (unintionally.)

"But Christians show Christian Love. They go all over showing Christian Love. Helping people. There are people in Bangladesh. And even though we are not Christians we can show Christian Love too, right?"

Hereafter is the conversation I had with him in my head over the next couple of minutes:

"No, not really."

"What?"

"It's not really Christian Love that we're showing. It's really God's Love and not our own. So it's God loving people through us. But there's no way that we can show God's Love to people on our own. Except when we accept Christ as the payment for our debt (sins) and chose to follow Him, then God gives us a part of Him. It's called the Holy Spirit. So it's like we have a part of God inside us, and out of that part of us is where God's Love comes from. It's just that so many times we don't let that part live in us and we don't show God's Love. So when we can't show God's Love, it's really a piece of God in us that is Loving people."

Then it occurred to me. If he thinks that even if you're not a Christian you can show Christian Love, how sucky are we showing Christian/God's Love. If he thinks anyone can do it, how simple and non-huge are we limiting it to. God's love is impossible, it's unforgettable, it's unrepeatable, but if what we're doing seems to be replicated then, Dang, we suck. 

So I started thinking tangibly, how do we show God's love. It's really nothing that no one else couldn't do. We care, we open doors, we help when we shouldn't. Really it's almost like we're just being overly polite. I could see how it would make sense where it looks like anyone could do it.  The biggest thing I could think of is perseverance. We, some of us, persevere past when it's logical or when it's practical. When it hurts, when it causes us pain, when we continue to go on.  Is that God's love? It's a start in the right direction, the fullness, heck no.  Anyone with determination could persevere some. How do we persevere through it all?

How do we live, by not quenching the spirit, but live a life of Love, God's Love so it's obvious and apparent that it's not ours. How do we Love so it's unreplicable without God? Specifically, if we took a hold of the Power of God in us and Loved so far beyond ourselves, that no doubt that no one could do "Christian Love" without God, how do we do that?