Perfect Love

We read in 1 John chapter 4, verse 18:

"There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love."

Again, in the book of Mormon, The Book of Moroni, eighth chapter, sixteenth verse:
"Behold, I speak with boldness, having authority from God; and I fear not what man can do; for perfect love casteth out all fear."

I would like to have no fear--not be afraid at all, of anything!   I suppose I need to have perfect love, though, if I want all fear casteth out.

What does that mean, however, to have perfect love?

In order to have perfect love, I am suggesting, that you need not be perfect, not perfect yourself (because, only God is perfect, or you would be like God if you were perfect), you can only love God perfectly (or, approaching perfection) and when you love Him perfectly, you will not be fearful or afraid of anything. With your Heavenly Father, it's not so much that you, in your human condition, are capable of loving anyone or anything perfectly--but you have an innate capacity to love spirit-to-spirit perfectly.  Your spirit was created by God the Father in the existence we had before we came to Earth and our spirits don't have this fleshy natural man to weigh us down or hold us back from feeling that perfect love.  We naturally or innately LOVE our Father and our God.  So, when you love your Heavenly Father, you will want to obey Him and keep His commandments--what is there to be afraid of when you have your Lord and your God (because you can't love God and not love Christ as well and in fact, the only way to even approach God the Father is through His Son.

JPS