We know that Charity is the greatest of all the gifts of God.
The prophet Mormon tells us, “Wherefore, cleave unto charity, which is the greatest of all, for all things must fail—but charity is the pure love of Christ, and it endureth forever” (Moroni 7:46–47; see also 1 Corinthians 13
The Relief Society of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, of which I belong, has as their motto: Charity Never Faileth. So I asked myself how it is that it NEVER fails. There are times when our love and kindness is not reciprocated or our kind deeds go unnoticed, or perhaps we go about doing things anonymously. We may say our good deeds are always noticed by God, which is true. But I realized that Charity is something WE possess, an attribute or a virtue, not those acts that we perform. When we stand before God and Christ, we will either have charity in our heart or we won't. It will not be about the number of kind deeds we have done or a list of monetary donations given. It will be about the person we have become. So charity never fails because if it is true charity, it will change us and make US more charitable. So how do we develop true charity? Moroni gives us the list of what charity is: "And acharity suffereth long, and is bkind, and cenvieth not, and is not puffed up, seeketh not her own, is not easily dprovoked, thinketh no evil, and rejoiceth not in iniquity but rejoiceth in the truth, beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things."
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