The work of the Holy Spirit - pagina 586

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LOVE

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his golden rays to wrestle with the dark clouds of the parting night, till,

having scattered

all,

he stands forth magnificent conqueror

in

the deep azure of a cloudless sky, his splendor does not then decline with the last vanishing vapors, but only begins to shine out

and power. And the same is true of the Sun and wrestles to vanquish the resistance of the darkened clouds and vapors of selfishness; and only gradually, after what has seemed an endless conflict, He succeeds in scattering and in driving them away before the splendor of His brightness. But when the victory is His, and the Sun of Love stands at last in dazzling glory in the cloudless sky, then, and only then, does He begin to show His perfect beauty and to radiate His blessed, cherin greater brightness

of Love.

He

first fights

ishing rays.

After the day of judgment the Holy Spirit can

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cease to feed,

and strengthen the Love of God in the elect; for, if but for a moment He should withdraw from them, they would cease to be His children, and the body of Christ would lose the bond which binds it to its sacred Head.

cultivate,

God's elect do not exist without the indwelling of the Holy We derive all that we are not from ourselves, but from Spirit. that rich Dweller in our hearts. We, His poor host, have nothing,

and from our own treasury can produce not even a grain of love but our rich Guest works in us with all His wealth. Or rather, not with His own, but with the riches of Christ's cross-merits; and with lavish hands He spends these cross-merits upon the poor owner But He does this, not of the house, making him unspeakably rich. in such a way as to make the saint the possessor of an independent Nay, it is the Holy capital, to be spent without the Holy Spirit. Spirit who from moment to moment holds the lamp that radiates Love's brightness in the heart in His own hand. Hence, if after the judgment, the Holy Spirit should cease to work in, or depart from, the hearts of the saints, all their life, light, and love would They are what they are by His indwelling, at once be quenched. and Love can celebrate its triumph only by pervading their whole personality with His influences. is all in all"; for

by the Holy

And what

Spirit

come to dwell in them. Owing to the many obstacles

that

is this

but that

"

God

even the Father and the Son

now prevent Love's

brightness from pervading them, this indwelling

is

light

and

very imperfect.

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