Love is a basic human need. 

We all have the basic need to be loved.   However, often times we want to bargan with others about it.   We take a  quid  pro quo attitude toward those we say we love then of course when we receive love from them or others we don't want conditions. Genuine love has no conditions - Absolutely not Quid Pro Quo Remember the old Diana Ross’s song “What the World Needs Now is Love?" “What the world needs now is love, sweet love It's the only thing that there's just too little of” I agree with the first line because love is a basic human need and we all are in need of it.  However, I have a problem with the second line, because Love is not in short supply, on the contrary, it is plentiful and available to anyone and everyone.   There is more than enough to go around. We who live in the 21^st Century can’t seem to get a grip on what genuine love really is.   What many of us call love really isn’t love at all.  Many seem to be confused about it.   Is there such a thing as conditional love?   I don’t think so, because if there are conditions, how can it be genuine? What is Love?  It is not lust or passion nor is it the result of having great power or of having enormous wealth.   It’s not like you can take love to the bank and store it up for a rainy day.   There are very few people who truly find it and those who do are bound to it eternally.   The best synonym for the word love is the word sacrifice, however, love is much more than that.   Love has been around since before the creation of Planet Earth.   And, that's a fact. Another mostly unknown fact is that God is Love.   As St. John tells in 1 John 4: 7-11,    Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God.   Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love.   In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him.   In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.   Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. And in John 17:24 we are told that God’s love for Christ existed before the Creation of Planet Earth.   And in Ephesians 1:4-6 we are told that we too were loved before the Creation of Planet Earth. God’s Love is Unconditional, and that means it has; No restrictions - No limitations - No ifs' - No whens' - No excepts' This unconditional love is absolute genuine love flowing toward you and me with no conditions whatsoever - none. God’s unconditional love is absolute! God’s love means; Not if I - Not when I - Not but  God’s love is unconditionally love flowing toward us since before the foundation of the world was put in place. Genuine Love is unconditional and sacrificial. The fact is that we humans don't deserve to be loved by Almighty God, but we are.   Shouldn't we accept this wonderful gift of love and then pass along the good news that God's love is abundant and it is free for the taking?   Shouldn’t we learn more about it?   And, shouldn't  we teach our children and one another about this wonderful God and Savior who loves us unconditionally and wants to have a personal relationship with us? God's Grace or His unconditional love toward is the best news ever.   All that is necessary to experience genuine love is to accept the gift of love that Jesus Christ paid for on the Cross two thousand years ago.  It’s free and it’s unconditional.  You don’t have to change a thing to receive it, you can receive it just like you are.   However, receiving this gift of genuine love will change you, your life and your future.   And, you will like the change! I guarentee it! ~Adverse Yaw