3-Aug-2022_What is lack of love
(In the night, I asked Jesus, in my mind: “what is lack of love…?” to help understand “love”. I was resting and partly asleep. But first words came clear and immediately. “Lack of love is soiling up whatever God has made.” Then I sat to type it and anything else that could be shared with me.)

(Jesus speaking: ) Lack of love is soiling up whatever God has made.
It’s in the pursuit of things more than the preservation of humankind.
It’s the deep need for gaining, to the exclusion of refining the art of giving; giving to the point where all around truly have not only whatever they need to get by, but all also have equal, so that none can say they are above another, nor condemn others for their lack of high status.
Love is sharing of the richest kind; sharing that which is most precious; what which truly preserves your life, yet giving so that all, or at least those around you, can also be preserved.
Love is not in the taking of resources, but in harvesting them so that future generations, living under worse conditions, will have the resources to get by.
Can you live a life of love to the full? Where all that you do is helping to preserve what is truly good-- that is: what is truly of God--and that in living that kind of life, the rest, the soiling things in the souls of humans, will simply not have room to thrive. 
Can you plant oh so many good seeds, and water them with your drops of sweat and your tears of compassion, that few if any weeds of greed and lust are given room to grow; till the wrong is basically eliminated due to the flourishing good in the garden of life?
It's like taking away the darkness. The only way is to shed light where you are. So it is with the problems that a lack of love causes. You have to shed love so abundantly that those weeds of darkness can’t take root. There simply isn’t room for them. 
If every time someone even thinks about doing something unkind, or even really awful, all of a sudden love is flooding them, filling beyond their needs, overflowing them to the point they can’t help but give out love instead of lustful revenge, then the lack of love will cease to flourish, and love will reign.

Why don’t you try an experiment with the rest of this year, and go out of your way to love? It will change not only your current surroundings, but will paint a brighter, much brighter future for you than it would have been if you had only sought for those things that make you happy right here and now. 
It will be like the difference in eating all the crops you have grown, or saving some seeds to grow some next year. Saving the seed portion for the next year, and then doing the work of sowing and helping them to grow makes a huge difference in you and your loved ones having what they need in the not too distant future. Whereas if you want it all, and now, and also take some of the new crop seeds from others to also consume, you all will be very hungry before you know it.
If you are wise, you don’t take what you might want right now because you are thinking of what the future might need; a future that is right around the corner. And that’s only half of the picture. The other half is to do the hard work, the labour to make those seeds bear good fruit. You have to put something towards the future, and then do what it takes when the time is right. 

So is it when you live with love as your preferred reaction today; the future will be all that much brighter and you will have what you truly need. 
Somethings have to go undone today, so that you can have the wherewithal for future work. 
If you look through the life of the apostles you will see a pattern of how to live in a way that keeps the family of the Lord going, and going strong, though all lacks of love in the surrounding world give them fierce opposition. Those holding the torch of love in their bosom would rather be beaten till they have no life left in their human body, rather than give it up and cast it down to the ground. They cherish the gift of love as if it’s the only thing really worth holding on to. And that is why they are hounded and punished for it. It really is the only true thing of value on Earth. It is the most valuable substance of all, for with it life can flourish. 
And truly it is the greatest threat and biggest enemy of those who wish to extinguish all form of life. It is the substance that will keep life thriving, so it is the biggest danger to the destroyer. He tries to kill it in numerous ways, mostly by trying to get people to think it’s way too hard and so they must give it up or die. But those who love life and wish for it more abundantly, will hold on to this element of greatest power, for it not only causes life to spring, but to keep on keeping on; the real element of love will reproduce on and on with whoever has it, and by whoever it is shared with.
Its like the opposite of a deadly and greatly contagious sickness; it spreads and brings death. Think of the opposite, something invisible that must be carried by a person and spread, and it brings life and health and joy, and keeps life going; keeps people wishing to give life and to live. 
Does something keep life going—and going; then the finger prints of love are on it. 
You may not see this element called love, for it may be as invisible as the God who creates it. But its effects will be seen in the future getting brighter when you walk in to it. Just as an invisible God can be seen in the things He created, in the beauty of nature and in the loving of His beings. 
You might see the effects of love, but that is not it entirely. You may feel the effects, but the feeling isn’t it entirely, it just gives you a “heads up” that love is around. 
So what is love? What is it that causes love effects to be seen and felt? 
It’s an element only the Spirit of Heaven can impart. 
So the real question should be, for those serious to see life flourish, is “How to get it?”
Since it’s a gift of the Holy Spirit, passed on from the heart and hand of the Lord, then the Holy Spirit is the missing element and what is needed. 
You as a human vessel are filled with holes, in a way, and what is given to you leaks out or is drained out by just going through a life on Earth. But think of the Holy Spirit as something that seals you and covers the holes so that when love is given, or other elements of God, then they can be held within your soul and poured out, shown out and given and used by you in real life situations. 
That’s why real love, just as much as real faith, won’t be troubled by circumstances around you or the way others treat you. If it wasn’t real, but a mere feeling it would pass through you as a sieve. But with God’s Spirit covering you inside, when you then ask for the gift of Heaven, those elements that keep you and others alive and well, then it stays in your soul long enough to use it and be benefited by it. You become a vessel that can hold the elements of God that will make such a difference in life. 
Think of a battery with fluid. It needs to be in a case in order to bring action to this or that. So you need to be shielded, covered, and sealed so you can be filled and have what you need in any situation. 
So you can give the love of God to others and it will cause them to grow and change. But all need the Holy Spirit to help them contain and cherish the alive and active Spirit of God within their very bodies. 
If love isn’t lasting, the missing element is the Loving Spirit of God enabling you to hold this very powerful element of God within you, and enable you to then give it out to others, endlessly; as you can keep being refilled again and again.

It’s like saying, “what is life?” You can look at all the people who are alive, and all the animals and creatures who live on the Earth; you can see what plants are living and what are no longer alive, and each one looks so very different, yet they all have “life” of some sort; some invisible element that keeps them animated, alive, and making more of them while they are alive. So what is life? It comes and goes and doesn’t stay on a being of earth always. It’s something that can be in a being, but that living creation isn’t the icon of life, and only what life is. It’s a vessel that can contain life, for a while. 
So is love and the ways it can be expressed and the various activities on earth that portray love in some form. But just doing that, in any situation, won’t carry true love, always. Nor is one activity that has given love in the past be the only icon of what love is. Love is invisible and supernatural and has to inhabit a being that is alive. Love can be passed on, but not seen, the real spiritual element that is orchestrating the love. The way you show love, the action itself is not love, but it can be a vehicle a vessel that gives the element of love to another. 
Love is a Spirit.
What Spirit do you carry when doing this or that? If love is the element that is powering what you are being nudged by God’s Spirit to do, then loving it is. But you can’t just go through those actions and think you are being fully “loving”. Love is not a flesh and blood thing. It is a spirit that inhabits the loving deeds, those God ordained actions. So just about anything you do can pass on love, if it’s God’s Holy Spirit of love that has called on you to do it then and there. And just repeating the action later on may or may not pass on love. It depends if it was God prompted, and His Spirit of Love was working through you as you did it.
Motives are a good way to know if the Spirit of God is working through you or not. Is it something that will not only benefit you and your life and your immediate loved ones, but that will cause the life of another to flourish to the point where they too can overflow life and love onto others? Will it cause others to keep on going in the right direction? Does it have a seed bearing element? That is to say to keep bearing fruit, and that to grow and cause yet more fruit to spring up? Will it bring on-going good, eventually? Or at least that is what your motive is?