And how can I learn to love?
Never until the Spirit of
God fills my heart with God’s love, and I begin to long for God’s love in a
very different sense from which I have sought it so selfishly, as a comfort and
a joy and a happiness and a pleasure to myself; never until I begin to learn
that “God is love,” and to claim it, and receive it as an indwelling power for
self-sacrifice; never until I begin to see that my glory, my blessedness, is to
be like God and like Christ, in giving up everything in myself for my
fellow-men. May God teach us that! Oh, the divine blessedness of the love with
which the Holy Spirit can fill our hearts!
“The
fruit of the Spirit is love.”
Andrew Murray
Absolute Surrender
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