The concept of love is diminishing right before our eyes, just as the Bible predicted would happen in the last days because of lawlessness. However many people live in ignorance of their lack of love for humanity. Just as a blind man is unaware visually of his surroundings, sin blinds us to the love that can exist in our hearts, and that longs to be expressed to God and to others. Love is not lust or a selfish reach of power, in order to control and manipulate things and events. It’s hard for love to flourish or to be nurtured in an environment that has become increasingly selfish and violent, and then love becomes despised in those who have forgotten what it is. Love itself becomes dead in those who have forgotten God. We can’t live in a caring society that glorifies things like death and selfishness, but Jesus Christ predicted that society would lose its way before the second coming, (Matthew 24:12). Awakened love in the soul always gives life, it never takes it away, th...