The Secret of Brotherly Love by Andrew Murray
The Secret of Brotherly Love 30-Day Devotional Is biblical and God-honoring love attainable between human beings? As a part of his classic Secret Series devotionals, Andrew Murray wrote this month-long devotional to remind believers that this kind of love is not only attainable, but it is commanded. Through the gracious spirit of God, believers can be a flowing stream of God’s love to the world. When a Christian comes to understand that the love wherewith God and Christ love him should be in him too—and not merely as a pleasant experience but as a divine life-power, abiding in him—he can have assurance that the Spirit of God longs to effect this love in him. And as he believes this, and surrenders himself fully to the Holy Spirit, he will find that he can and will love all men. Andrew Murray, The Secret of Brotherly Love
The Secret of Brotherly Love 30-Day Devotional
Is biblical and God-honoring love attainable between human beings? As a part of his classic Secret Series devotionals, Andrew Murray wrote this month-long devotional to remind believers that this kind of love is not only attainable, but it is commanded. Through the gracious spirit of God, believers can be a flowing stream of God’s love to the world.
When a Christian comes to understand that the love wherewith God and Christ love him should be in him too—and not merely as a pleasant experience but as a divine life-power, abiding in him—he can have assurance that the Spirit of God longs to effect this love in him. And as he believes this, and surrenders himself fully to the Holy Spirit, he will find that he can and will love all men.
Andrew Murray, The Secret of Brotherly Love
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FIFTEENTH DAY.<br />
U:be Spirit <strong>of</strong> '.lLo\?e.<br />
"<strong>The</strong> fruit <strong>of</strong> the Spirit is love."<br />
GAL. V. 22.<br />
"God hath given us the spirit <strong>of</strong> love."-<br />
2 TIM. i. 7.<br />
UR love, which is the fruit <strong>of</strong> the<br />
O Spirit, does not consist merely in<br />
the knowledge <strong>of</strong>, and faith in, God's love<br />
as revealed in our redemption. No, the<br />
matter goes far deeper. Our love has<br />
its origin in the fact that the love <strong>of</strong><br />
God has been shed abroad in our hearts<br />
<strong>by</strong> the Holy Spirit, not only as an experience<br />
or feeling, but the spirit <strong>of</strong> love<br />
takes possession <strong>of</strong> us, and directs and<br />
controls and inspires. This love becomes<br />
a heavenly life-power, a disposition <strong>of</strong><br />
the soul, where<strong>by</strong> man tastes and knows<br />
that God is good. <strong>The</strong> Spirit gives to<br />
love such a form that it contains the<br />
commands <strong>of</strong> the divine love within<br />
itself, and thus can keep the commandments<br />
without difficulty. " This is the<br />
love <strong>of</strong> God, that we keep His commandments,<br />
and His commandments are not<br />
grievous" (r John v. 3). When God,<br />
according to promise, writes His law in<br />
our hearts, the summing up <strong>of</strong> that law<br />
is love. It governs the life <strong>of</strong> the man<br />
wholly devoted to God, and controls his<br />
thoughts and actions. This divine love<br />
in the heart <strong>of</strong> man is as a little sanctu-<br />
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