We cannot believe we are consecrated until we feel that we are: and because we do not feel that God has taken us in hand, we cannot believe that He has. As usual, we put feelings first, and faith second, and the fact last of all. No, God's invariable rule in everything is, fact first, faith second, and feeling last of all; and it is striving against the inevitable when we seek to change this order.
love was to become such a crucial part of who we are as Christians that Galatians 5 tells us it is THE MARK of the Spirit bearing fruit in our live.
Being a Christian requires more than we even know, that was why the demon asked when tired to be cast out in the bible it said Jesus I know, Paul I know but who are you? In that being a Christian means being washed in the blood of the lamb, being sanctified and saved by grace.