II Corinthians 4:5-7
"For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord; and ourselves your servants for Jesus' sake. For God, Who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us."
June 12th
"And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself." Matthew 22:39
It is easy to talk about love and to exhort unto love; yet love is not something that comes about through our wishful thinking. Again, if you were a child among many brothers and sisters: did you love them because you wanted to love them? Or did you love them because a parent had commanded you to love them? No indeed! Your love for them could not arise that way. But you loved them because you had grown up with them; you loved them because you knew their good points and their many fine qualities, which possibly the stranger would not observe at first contact. You knew them for what they were, and you loved them for that goodness which dwelled within them, also because of that love which they might have expressed to you-ward because they had sensed that portion of goodness which dwelled within you.
Therefore, the secret unto love is coming into the realization that we are all the children of the Heavenly Father's love. We learn to look upon people, and search for that goodness and that truth and that beauty which dwells within them: qualities which they inherit from the Eternal Father. As we persist in looking upon that goodness and such lovable qualities as they may possess, then we learn to love them: even in the power of that love which originates in the heart of God. That was especially manifest through Christ our Savior as He struggled under the weight of the Cross to climb the hill of Calvary, there to suffer the "tortures of the damned" for you and me – to fully set us free.
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