The New Life

The New Life.
and the Church, and the world, see
in you one with
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whom ' love is greatest ; ' ' one in whom the love of God
has a full dwelling, a free working.
/ Christian, God is love. Jesus is the gift of this
love, to bring love to you, to transplant you into that
life of God-like love. ( Live in that faith, and you
shall not complain that you have no power to love :
the love of the Spirit shall be your power and your
life.
Beloved Saviour, I discern more clearly that the
whole of the new life is a life in love. Thou Thyself
art the Son of God's love, the gift of His love, come
to introduce us into His love, and give us a dwelling
there. And the Holy Spirit is given to shed abroad
the love of God in our hearts, to open a spring out of
which shall stream love to Thee, and to the brethren,
and to all mankind. Lord, here am I, one redeemed
by love, to live for it, and in its might to love all.
Amen.
1. Those who reject the word of God sometimes say that it is of
no moment what we believe, if we but have love, and so they are
lor making love the one condition of salvation. In their zeal
against this view, the orthodox party have sometimes presented
faith in justification, as if love were not of so much importance.
This is likely to be very dangerous. God is love. His Son is
the gift, the bringer, of His love to us. The Spirit sheds abroad
the love of God in the heart. The New I,ife is a life in love.
Love is the greatest thing. I^et it be the chief element in our
life : true love, that, namely, which is known in the keeping of
God's commandments. (See i John iii. lo, 23, 24, v. 2)
2. Do not wonder that I have said to you that you must love,
although you do not feel the least love. Not the feeling, but the
twill is your jMiwer : it is not in your feeling, but in faith, that
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