Seeking Love for Connectivity and True Power

As humans, we appreciate love as an intense emotion of warmth and caring. We feel at home when we know that we are accepted, wanted, and desired. From the time we are formed, we can feel and react to love. Even in the womb, an infant can feel loving emotions from the mother and emit hormones in response. Love is such a force that whether we admit it or not —whether we are happy, sad, or angry — we long for it. Whether our hearts are open or closed, our hearts still long for it. Love gives life, and in its purest form, has the strength to defend life.

Love is gentle and kind, yet it is powerful and selfless. The strength of love is unfathomable — capable of connecting us to a God we cannot see,and anchoring us in hope for a day we cannot discern, yet deeply believe will come. Love connects us to one another, causes life to emerge, and creates oneness where there was division. Yet, it is the strength of love that gives it the power to wage war against evil. When perfected, love becomes a force that cannot be contained. It changes the most stubborn heart, transforms the stiffest mind. Love is a force that our words can never fully express. As complex as it is to understand our Lord, so is it to comprehend the width and breadth of Love.

God is Love.

His nature is the pure depiction of Love’s character. It is patient. It is kind. It holds no grudges and seeks not its own. Unless we walk in Love, we cannot be saved — it is that simple. We may understand great mysteries ,we may faithfully attend church or Bible study ,but without Love, our sound in Heaven is as tinkling cymbals. Without Love, we are unrecognizable to the Savior, because it is His essence within us that makes us known to Him.

God sends out His Spirit with the expectation that we do the same —to send forth Love. We can spend years building our portfolios, accumulating achievements and greatness, but if it is not fueled by the essence of the Almighty — the very Breath of Life, which is Love — it is all in vain.

So in all your doing,i n all of your accomplishments, and all of your greatness, seek Love and its perfecting power. For when pure faith and belief collide, they set the atmosphere for Love — for miracles. Faith and belief together create the language of Love, and through that language, miracles, life, and healing emerge.

The most important thing you can ever do —the very reason you were created —is to receive Love and to give it. To flow in it, live by its principles, and with every talent and gift, manifest Love.

For upon it hangs all the commandments.

And through it, there are no other spiritual legalities.