"charity...seeketh not her own"

We covered something really neat yesterday in my New Testament class. We are currently reading in the Gospel of John. I'm thoroughly enjoying this non-synoptic gospel which offers a very original perspective of Christ's life. We read in John 4 and 5 last class period and talked about Christ's response to ignorant critiquing of His Sabbath day healing. What impacted me the most was Jesus' instruction concerning judgement. In verse thirty of the fifth chapter, Christ states, "I can of mine own self do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my judgment is just; because I seek not mine own will, but the will of the Father which hath sent me." These rulers who confronted Him were seeking their own will, they wanted their own pleasures and their judgement reflected this. The correct way, the true perspective, was not to seek one's own but the will of the father. This reminded me of the lesson taught by prophets concerning charity, "And charity suffereth long, and is kind, and envieth not, and is not puffed up, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, 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"(Moroni 7:45). To understand this better we read in Moroni 7:47 "But charity is the pure love of Christ, and it endureth forever; and whoso is found possessed of it at the last day, it shall be well with him". We read in the New Testament "He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love" (1 John 4:8). Now that we have this vast array of scriptures I want to tie it all together. God is love; charity is the pure love of Christ; charity seeketh not her own. I feel that as we seek to have charity in our lives we will find ourselves seeking not to do what will gratify us at that moment, but what will make our Eternal Father happy. The secret behind this is that what makes our Heavenly Father happy is what really makes us happy; He knows all things and gives us commandments so that we can find true happiness in our lives. I love how we can learn so much from each example of the Savior. I hope I can do a little better in not "seeking [my] own" but in seeking to do God's will more often.