This hit me like a freight train the other night...

^{1 Cor. 13: 1-3} If I speak human or angelic languages but do not have love, I am a sounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and understnad all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have faith so that I can move mountains but do not have love, I am nothing. And if I donate all my goods to feed the poor, and if I give my body in order to boast but do not have love, I gain nothing.

To some up what Paul says, I think he's saying " If I [insert anything here] but do not have love, I have nothing." Paul is saying we can go through all the motions, do all the right things, act righteously, even experience manifestations of the Holy Spirit, sound smart and get great revelation from God--but without love, it's of no purpose.God showed me I had begun to start to drift away from the centrality of love. God loves you, He asks you to love Him, and love His creation. His love for you is not dependent or contingent on your love for Him but He knows that every fullfilment you seek, every hope, every dream, every relationship, every pleasure, every pain, every aspect of life was designed to be lived in love with God. Apart from that love, if we choose to reject it, we live a fake, counterfeit version of the life God designed.