For instance, one is peace. Romans 5:1 says, "Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ." If you are born-again, this Love is in you. You may not be practicing it. But it's in your inward man, your spirit. If you're ever going to grow and develop out of the babyhood state, you will have to learn to feed this Love nature on the Word of God, and exercise this love nature in the arena of life. Then you will grow in Love. You'll not do it any other way. You could sit around all day and pray, "God, give me love. God, help me love my brother. God, help me love the world," and it wouldn't do any more good than to twiddle your thumbs and say, "Twinkle, twinkle, little star; How I wonder what you are." But when you recognize the Bible teaches that because you are born of God you are born of Love; that you are made a partaker of the divine nature, God's nature, which is Love; and you have it, a measure of it at least...and then you get ready to feed that love nature on the Word of God, and to put it into practice...you will begin spiritual development and growth.
And not until. Love is absolutely to govern the heart life of the Church. I CORINTHIANS 10:24 24 Let no man seek his own, but every man another's wealth (or good). How many of us are seeking our own good? Most of us. When love does not rule, then the motives of life become distorted; conduct becomes abnormal, and the body rules the spirit causing the mind to be brought into captivity to earthly things.
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