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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SEVENTEENTH DAY.<br />
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"If ye love Me, ye will heep My commandments."-JOHN<br />
xiv. r5.<br />
HE love wherewith the Father<br />
T loved the Son was a wonderful,<br />
never-ending love. All that the Father<br />
was and had, He gave to the Son. <strong>The</strong><br />
Son responded to this love <strong>by</strong> giving<br />
the Father all. Cost what it might, He<br />
'kept the Father's commandments and<br />
abode in His love.<br />
Christ, in His great love to us, sacrificed<br />
all; His life and death were wholly<br />
at our service, and He asks <strong>of</strong> us that<br />
which is only reasonable, that we, out<br />
<strong>of</strong> love, should keep His commandments.<br />
Read verses r5, 21, 23, and see how the<br />
words are repeated three times, together<br />
with the great promise that follows.<br />
And chapter xv. verses 7, ro, 14 speak<br />
three times <strong>of</strong> the rich blessing connected<br />
with the keeping <strong>of</strong> the commandments.<br />
"If ye love Me, keep My commands."<br />
This precept loses its power because<br />
Christians say : " It is quite impossible :<br />
I cannot always keep His commandments."<br />
And so conscienc~ is quieted,<br />
and the commands are not kept. Yet<br />
our Lord really meant it, for in the last<br />
night with His disciples He promised<br />
them definitely a new life, in which the<br />
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