Steve Young from his book ‘The Law of Love’ shared:. . . . The Law of Love is loving as God loves, seeking another’s healing, expecting nothing in return. 1 This is not a new doctrine. But for me, looking through the lens of the law of love was a subtle shift with vast implications. Some of these concepts were hidden in plain sight, right there in the scriptures. Now that I see them, my whole world is changed for the better. The law of love is different from love itself.
How many songs try to define the word love. It can be compassionate, charitable, romantic, sexual—love is a feeling, selfish or unselfish. But the law of love is a governing force. Just like the laws of gravity, physics, and thermodynamics govern this world, the law of love governs all creation—and the heavens and the earth. The law of love is the highest of all laws. When I seek to live the law of love—when I make it my quest to steer my life by the highest governing power—the law of love can transform everything.
Many people that I know, inside and outside the Church, intuitively live this law of love. Regardless of whether they are coming from a place of doubt or belief, I see the fruits of this law in their lives, whether they recognize it or not. I can especially see the effect of the law of love on those around them. I draw inspiration from many people you’ll find quoted in this book, including some who are members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Anglican, atheist, Baptist, Catholic, Confucian, Hindu, Jewish, Muslim, and secular people of wisdom. Truth is truth, wherever I find it.
You may feel like Moses at the edge of the Red Sea: you’ve got water in front of you, the Egyptians behind you in hot pursuit and you’re stuck. But what if the law of love could open a path for you? Maybe you could “make a way out of no way,” as the African-American saying goes. There is power in the law of love. Give this idea a chance to change your life, because it has changed mine.
~Steve Young, The Law of Love (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2022), 6-8 (continued)
