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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TWENTIETH DAY.<br />
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"If ye fulfil the royal law according to<br />
the scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbour<br />
as thyself, ye do well."-]As. ii. 8.<br />
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answered : " Thou shalt love the Lord<br />
thy God with all thy heart," He added:<br />
" <strong>The</strong> second is like unto it, Thou shalt<br />
love thy neighbour as thyself." <strong>The</strong>se<br />
two commandments both contain the one<br />
verb, love. In heaven, where God is, and<br />
on earth amongst men, love is the royal<br />
law, love is supreme.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Christian's love for his fellow-men<br />
has more than one purpose :<br />
I. It reveals to us our own nature,<br />
implanted <strong>by</strong> God, that we should love<br />
-0urselves, and it calls us to love our<br />
neighbours with the same love. Thus we<br />
have in our hearts the law to love our<br />
neighbours as ourselves.<br />
z. Christianity teaches us to love our<br />
neighbour because God loves him. £very<br />
man, howsoever vile, has a share in God's<br />
compassion and love, because he is made<br />
in God's image. I ought, then, to love<br />
my neighbour, not merely because he is<br />
a fellow-man, but because I see God's<br />
likeness in him, and because God loves<br />
him. As God loves all men, even His<br />
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