and odd kind of love and joy

1Pe 1:8 whom having not seen you love. Though now you do not see [Him], yet believing, you rejoice with joy inexpressible and full of glory,

This verse caught me off guard in my devotions, it was pretty sweet what the Lord showed me and I can't put it on paper.....We love Christ because we have not sen him. What kind of love is that? in today's society Love is based on looks abs what we see to gratify ourselves. But as a believer we need faith that will love Christ even tho we don't see him! we have to get past the common thinking of the flesh when it comes to love.
That love mentioned here is the love between the savior and us. We know the Savior but do we love the savior? is our faith like that? can we say our faith is in loving a man we have not seen?
Joy! we can have joy believing in what we do not see! that also goes against society's terms. wow! thats radical, we rejoice in the unseen. We believe even tho we do not see him! thats faith, can we rejoice in that?