Jesus looked at the multitudes and felt compassion towards them. I agree that love includes "beneficent action", but it's more then that, it's the desire for them to receive the benefit. It's the commitment to their well-being. It's more than a sense of duty.
Add to your faith godliness, and to godliness brotherly love, and to brotherly love, charity. This brotherly love, philadelphia, this is the affection for others which we grow in as we commit to serving them. We learn to see others as those for whom Jesus died, out of love, and desire to rescue them.
Is God's love for man a cold choice to do man good? Or is God our passionate lover, having created that which He loves?
Much love!