What's Love Got To Do With It?

What's love got to do with it? Everything.

The gospel of Jesus Christ is all about love, and more specifically, the kind of love with no conditions. It is the pure love of Christ. This pure, unconditional love is called charity. The greatest demonstration of this love is Christ himself. He is a perfect being who made the perfect sacrifice in the Garden of Gethsemane and on the cross. In those two places, Christ took upon himself pain and suffering from all of our sins, illnesses, diseases, heart aches, and trauma. He suffered it all even though He was perfect. He made no mistakes. He had the gift to heal. He understood other men's hearts so He understood why they behaved the way they did. He was perfect and yet He made the ultimate sacrifice not just giving His life but suffering so extensively that we cannot comprehend the enormous amount of anguish he felt. All this was on our behalf. All of this was because He loves us so much we cannot possibly comprehend its measure. He suffered our sins. Not His because He had none. Yet He willingly, lovingly suffered our sins and mistakes. How is it possible that our elder brother, Jesus Christ, could love us so much? I've wondered before whether I was worth it to Him, and though I don't deserve it, I know the answer to that question is yes. Even when I don't feel like I am worth it, He unbelievably does. How are we so blessed and loved to have such an amazing and wondrous brother that would sacrifice Himself for us! He stood to gain nothing from this sacrifice except the possibility that we might choose to come back to Him and our Heavenly Father again someday. Knowing this makes me want to be so much more than I am. I do not want to let Him down. I want to return to be with Him someday so that I may fall to the floor and bathe His feet with my tears and kisses for all He did for me just so that I might have the chance to return to Him someday. Now, we must go forth and try to love as He did. It is a task that sometimes seems nearly impossible. To love someone as they are, mistakes and all, with no conditions attached. That is true love. We must strive to find this kind of love in our hearts for all whom we meet. Love has everything to do with everything!