THE WILL TO LOVE - Vital Christianity

100the sake of God; if we are in our right mind, it is for you. For Christ’s love compels us . . .” (2 Co5:13-14). Paul was not concerned about the effect of God’s presence and power; he wasconcerned only with God’s glory.How about us today? What is our chief concern? To know God? To love God? To berespected Christians? To be proper Christians? As we have seen form Scripture and churchhistory, there are time when it is not proper to be proper. God’s Spirit must have freedom tomove as He wills!A. W. Tozer was a modern day prophet and lover of God. His ardent love for his Masteris seen in the following prayer as he cries out to his God:“O God, I have tasted Thy goodness, and it has both satisfied me and made methirsty for more. I am painfully conscious of my need of further grace. I amashamed of my lack of desire. O God, the Triune God, I want to want Thee; Ilong to be filled with longing; I thirst to be more thirsty still. Show me Thyglory, I pray Thee, that so I may know Thee indeed. Begin in mercy a newwork of love within me. Say to my soul, ‘Rise up, my love, my fair one, andcome from this misty lowland where I have wandered so long. In Jesus’ name,Amen. 12Our hearts need to be rekindled with the consuming fire of His holy love!May the second stanza of Ray Palmer’s song, “My Faith Looks Up To Thee” be oursong, our prayer:“May Thy rich grace impartStrength to my fainting heart,My zeal inspire;As Thou hast died for me,O may my love to TheePure, warm and changeless be,A living fire!”