God's blessings are conditional

 For those who don't know I'm in the middle of writing a book about God's love and how it helps us overcome anything in this life. Although it's beginning to be bigger than I ever thought it's been leading me down a path I hadn't realized I would be walking down or needed in my life right now. I have been reading tons of conference talks about God's love and atonement one of which really stood out to me last night it's from president Nelson and is called divine love. He states "while divine love can be called perfect, infinite, enduring, and universal, it cannot correctly be characterized as unconditional." 

Until last night I always assumed that God loved us no matter what we do which is true to a certain extent. I learned that God's love is conditional and there's several verses in the scriptures that prove such. "I love them that love me; and those that seek me shall find me." Many times in the scriptures if, then, inasmuch as, expect, cannot, prove are in the scriptures proving that for God's blessings and fullness of his love to come into our lives there are certain things we must do. All that God asks boil down to the two great commandments to love God with all of our mind and heart. The second is to love our neighbors like ourselves which also includes learning to love ourselves the way God loves us. 

Now what I'm about to say may offend some and if it does I'm truly sorry but I have to stand out for what has always been true. "Wickedness never was happiness." "Come unto me and be saved. Except you shall keep my commandments ye shall in no case enter into the kingdom of  heaven." 

So how can God love everyone but his love is conditional? He loves all of us because we are his beloved children. Even his daughters and sons. There's certain laws and a order to everything under the sun. His love is conditional because in order for us to feel the fullness of his love we have things we must do. If we love him then it becomes easier to keep the commandments and promises we make to God and in return the fullness of God's love comes into our lives. As his love comes into our life it becomes easier for us to love everyone around us even those who have wronged us. There's so much more in this talk so if you have not read the talk I highly recommend reading it. Hope everyone can feel God's love and in return keep the commandments that God has given to us. I promise as we do so blessings will be poured into our lives.