To successfully live out our lives  ~ On guard, Standing Firm, being Strong and Courageous ~ we need everything we do to be covered by one underlying and necessary prerequisite.

Everything we do must be done in love.  
Every thought. Every Emotion. Every Action.  
In Trial.  In Testing.  In Temptation.  
When life is good.  When life is bad.  

The all encompassing force of our existence must be ruled by love.  
Why? Because it is who God is and what he created us to be.