"Charity. The highest, noblest, strongest kind of love, not merely affection; the pure love of Christ.  It is never used to denote alms or deeds or benevolence, although it may be a prompting motive."  This is from our Bible Dictionary.  Simple, huh?  Reads easy and is quite complete.  But oh, where it can take you.  In my effort to understand it better I changed one word and it really expanded the whole idea for me.  I changed the 'pure love of Christ' to 'pure love FOR Christ.  In the last several verses of Moroni 7, Mormon teaches us that this pure love of Christ is 'our' love for Christ.  We must work to be 'filled with this love'.  We must seek to be pure and as we become pure our love for Him will become pure.  Pure, holy, sanctified, washed clean, sounds like our  life long pursuit.  Then, if we become 'like him' in love we will love as he loves.  Imagine, 'the pure love of Christ' defining the love we have in our own heart.  If we love as he loves, we behave as he behaves, and truly 'we shall be like him for we shall see him as he is', and he shall see us as we are, or as we have become. Because the Father has bestowed this upon us, 'true followers of his Son'.  Faith, hope and charity; 'but the greatest of these is charity'.