If you really want to understand and Use the the Full Power of Love – Look to Christ – and I would say Look to Joseph Smith. Let’s start with Christ –
Was Christ a Jewish Rebel? The religious leaders of his day thought so – not all but way too many…
Most of the Early Saints – those in Christ’s time saw something else – the apostles died for him and their Love for him… Christ has an amazing love for both mankind and his Heavenly Father….
These loves were One Love – shown in all that he did… Christ said – As I have love you – love one another! This level of Love – is life changing – it is the highest form of goodness…it can touch some of the hardest of hearts – it can unite people – nations – groups – it’s utterly amazing – this love – this Charity – When sought – can not only Unite People – Countries and the World but it Changes them for the Better –
NO PERSON WHO USES IT AND APPLIES IT LIKE CHRIST DID – WILL EVERY DO A GREATER GOOD FOR THEMSELVES AND OTHERS –
God has said through his Prophets – the following – this following statement shows the unity of Love for man and God – in one statement – there is no better statement about service and love – than from King Benjamin in Mosiah 2
https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/bofm/mosiah/2?lang=eng
14 And even I, myself, have alabored with mine own bhands that I might serve you, and that ye should not be claden with taxes, and that there should nothing come upon you which was grievous to be borne—and of all these things which I have spoken, ye yourselves are witnesses this day.
( He did not tax or over tax his people – he Labored with is Own hands! ) Our Current Political Leaders could learn a great deal form this – as well as the people – do we know how to be more responsible and labor for our selves and others?
15 Yet, my brethren, I have not done these things that I might aboast, neither do I tell these things that thereby I might accuse you; but I tell you these things that ye may know that I can answer a clear bconscience before God this day.
( Can we say – we have a conscience – a clear conscience before God this day? )
16 Behold, I say unto you that because I said unto you that I had spent my days in your service, I do not desire to boast, for I have only been in the service of God.
Are we willing to serve? Glad to serve? Is our Love for one another that strong? Are there others who take advantage of this Love and Service? Do they need to repent? You Judge! Let God Judge! For those that take advantage – shame on you – but it’s better to serve with out this concern – but I have seen it – in the church and out of the church…
17 And behold, I tell you these things that ye may learn awisdom; that ye may learn that when ye are in the bservice of your cfellow beings ye are only in the service of your God.
18 Behold, ye have called me your king; and if I, whom ye call your king, do labor to aserve you, then ought not ye to labor to serve one another? ( Such a great Point! Service instead of abuse and using others when you are in High or Low position in life – think about that! )
19 And behold also, if I, whom ye call your king, who has spent his days in your service, and yet has been in the service of God, do merit any thanks from you, O how you ought to athank your heavenly bKing!
20 I say unto you, my brethren, that if you should render all the athanks and bpraise which your whole soul has power to possess, to that God who has created you, and has kept and cpreserved you, and has caused that ye should drejoice, and has granted that ye should live in peace one with another—
21 I say unto you that if ye should aserve him who has created you from the beginning, and is bpreserving you from day to day, by lending you cbreath, that ye may live and move and do according to your own dwill, and even supporting you from one moment to another—I say, if ye should serve him with all your ewhole souls yet ye would be funprofitable servants.
@!@ Christ has paid a price for our sins – he shed his blood in pain for that price in two places! @!@ No matter what we do – we can never pay that price back – of course we will be indebted to him and his Father forever and ever !! This is the Highest form of Love and Sacrifice we know of – to lay down your life – for the life of someone else!!
22 And behold, all that he arequires of you is to bkeep his commandments; and he has cpromised you that if ye would keep his commandments ye should prosper in the land; and he never doth dvary from that which he hath said; therefore, if ye do ekeep his fcommandments he doth bless you and prosper you.
23 And now, in the first place, he hath created you, and granted unto you your lives, for which ye are indebted unto him.
24 And secondly, he doth arequire that ye should do as he hath commanded you; for which if ye do, he doth immediately bbless you; and therefore he hath paid you. And ye are still indebted unto him, and are, and will be, forever and ever; therefore, of what have ye to boast?
25 And now I ask, can ye say aught of yourselves? I answer you, Nay. Ye cannot say that ye are even as much as the dust of the earth; yet ye were acreated of the bdust of the earth; but behold, it cbelongeth to him who created you.
26 And I, even I, whom ye call your king, am ano better than ye yourselves are; for I am also of the dust. And ye behold that I am old, and am about to yield up this mortal frame to its mother earth.
27 Therefore, as I said unto you that I had aserved you, bwalking with a clear conscience before God, even so I at this time have caused that ye should assemble yourselves together, that I might be found blameless, and that your cblood should not come upon me, when I shall stand to be judged of God of the things whereof he hath commanded me concerning you.
This is the great leveling field of God – ALL WILL BE JUDGED of their WORKS of what they have done and what they have Become – there is not exception to this! But even this will be done in Love and Great Mercy – but Justice will not be Robbed – For God Can not Rob Justice – Christ paid a great Price to Fulfill the Demands of Justice! Men are often foolish!
Our Divine Stewardship 
Leave a comment