An early grade school math lesson is the power of multiplication. Ten isn’t a very big number, neither is fifteen. But if you multiply ten times fifteen, suddenly you have one hundred fifty.

However, no matter how large your starting number, if you multiply it times zero the grand total is nothing. Zero times anything is zero.

And so it is that life without love is zero. The Bible says, “If I have the gift of prophecy … and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I'm nothing. If I give all I possess to the poor …, but have not love, I gain nothing.”

A person can be powerful, rich or famous, but if life is multiplied by factors other than love, it comes out to zero – because everything without love is nothing.