If, as a Christ-follower, you find you have more ambition to succeed as a commercial pilot than you have love for your fellow cockpit crews, something is wrong. The second thing is more important than the first, but without God, you will not be able to switch your priorities.
God is, thankfully, not only absolute truth but absolute love. We cannot summon up true love in any way in and of ourselves. Our only hope to know real love for others is found in the Lord giving it to us out of the infinite overflow of His own love.
It is divine love and divine love alone, whether received directly from Him or through others, that enables us to love anyone. The long, difficult process of becoming someone who truly loves is only made possible by God taking the initiative to love us despite our self-centeredness.
Only He can fill us with what we so desperately need to overcome the tyranny of the self.
I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing. John 15:5 (ESV)
