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Love
"He that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in
him." 1 John 4 :16. The fish is in its element when
dwelling in the sea. Man's proper element is love. Man out
of love is out of his native element. Love is the greatest
thing in life. The worth of a deed is estimated, not by
the deed itself, but by the amount of love there is in it.
Love associates the object loved with every thing in life.
Labor is the essential property of love. "And labor
of love." 1 Thess. 1:3. Love is the must of life.
"I must work the works of Him that sent me." The
labor of love is expressed in giving or in putting forth
effort to obtain something to give. Love lives to give. It
must give that it might live. Love is not in the word, but
in the deed. "Let us not love in word, neither in
tongue; but in deed and in truth." 1 John 3:18. The
tongue may talk of love, but the deed talks loudest.
"God so loved the world that He gave." You love
an object when you love it so that you give yourself for
it. Less than this is not love. Love gives itself. We must
cut the roses from the rose-bush on our lawn or it will
cease giving us roses. It must give its roses that it may
produce more roses. Love must give that it may keep on
loving.
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