The work of the Holy Spirit - pagina 562

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XX. God

the Holy Spirit the Love which Dwells in the Heart. " It

is like

the precious ointment upon the

head, that ran

down upon

to the skirts

the beard,

went down of his garments." Psalm

even Aaron's beard

;

that

cxxxiii. 2.

The

fact that love can radiate within

man

does not insure him

the possession of true and real Love, unless, according to His eternal counsel,

him. is

of

God

a stranger to it,

is

pleased to enter into personal fellowship with

man knows Him only from afar and not near, God him. He may admire His Love, have a faint sense

So long as

be pleasantly affected by

drink from

its

God's hand he

may

without knowing

The

and even rejoice

to see others

be the means of showing others the

it.

way

to

In it,

by personal experience. one with and inseparable from God. It may brightness even in the animal, but Love itself can not

true

radiate its

it,

Fountain, yet never come a step nearer to

Love

it

is

enter the heart except

God come

first.

And God's

royal privilege of calling this gift their own.

elect

have the

All their wealth and

treasure consist in the fact that from the hand of their Lord they have received this gold tried in the fire. Not, however, as tho this love, wholly possessing them, shall henceforth be of all their actions the only impulse. From St. Paul we learn that, while the Love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost, much evil may be found among us wherefore we are admonished to exercise patience and self-denial. But tho, like faith. Love may be in the germ and nothing be visible on the surface, in the warm soil, germ-like, it may swell, sprout, and strike out its roots in the ground. Hence, however defective and incomplete its form. Love itself dwells in our hearts; and by our own experience we are conscious of it. Who of God's children does not ;

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