The Secret of Brotherly Love by Andrew Murray

into the reason of such a lack of love to God,
and of love to the brethren, and to all mank.ind.
Many a Christian wearies himself
in the attempt to love always, for he so
often fails. The reason is simply that
we have no power in ourselves to love God,
or our brethren, or our enemies, "because
the mind of the flesh is enmity against
God ; for it is not subject to the law of
God, neither indeed can be." The old
nature-or old man-loves to do its own
will, and to gratify its sinful desires . To
love the great and holy God, to love Christ,
Who first loved us, to love our brethren
and our enemies, is impossible to the
carnal mind. Such love is not in ourselves.
We can only receive it from above,
when we cast ourselves down before God
with a sense of our own impotence and
unworthiness, that He may fill us.
When a Christian begins to understand
that the love wherewith God and Christ
love him, should be in him, not merely a
pleasant experience, but a divine lifepower,
abiding in him, he will have the
assurance that the Spirit of God Himself
wills to effect in him that love to the Father,
to the Son, to the brethren, and to all the
world. And as he believes this, and
surrenders himself fully to the Holy Spirit,
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