The Power of Love
"Love
is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.
He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love."
-I JOHN
4:7, 8 [KJV]
If
ever you have loved Jesus with a pure affection; if ever you have
felt Him near, dear, and precious to your soul, that love can never
be lost out of your heart. It may lie dormant; it does lie dormant.
It may not be sweetly felt in exercise; but there it is. "If
any man love not the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be Anathema
Maranatha" [I CORINTHIANS 16:22]. You would be under this
curse if the love of the Lord Jesus Christ were to die out of your
heart. But this love is often sleeping.
When
the mother sometimes watches over the cradle and looks upon her
sleeping babe with unutterable affection, the infant knows not that
the mother is watching its slumbers; but when it awakes, it is able
to feel and return its mother's caresses. It is so with the soul
sometimes when love in the heart is like a babe slumbering in the
cradle. But as the babe opens its eyes, and sees the mother smiling
upon it, it returns the smiles, and stretches forth its arms to
embrace the bending cheek; so when the eyes of the soul are opened to
see the smiling face of Jesus stooping to imprint a kiss of love, or
drop some sweet word into the heart, and there is a flowing forth
toward Him of love and affection—this is the power of love.
-Gospel
report by preacher J.C. Philpot (1802-1869 A.D.)
JANUARY
17th, EARS FROM HARVESTED SHEAVES
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