there, beware above everything on earth or in hell of being unloving. One
sharp word to your brother or sister brings a cloud upon you without your
knowing it. People are so accustomed to talk just as they like about each
other that they say sharp and unkind and unloving things, and when a cloud
comes in consequence they cannot understand it. If there is one thing that
grieves God, if there is one thing that hinders the Spirit--the fruit of
the Spirit is love--it is the want of lovingness. If you want to live in
the joy of the Holy Ghost make your covenant with God. "But," you say,
"there is a Christian man who makes me so impatient; he does trouble me and
vex me so with his stupidity. And there are those worldly men; how they
have tempted me in times past and done me harm! And there is that business
man who is trying to ruin me." Take them all, and your own wife and
children and every one around you and say, "I understand it, love is rest,
and rest is love. God resteth in His love. Love is rest and rest is love,
and where there is no love the rest must be disturbed." And let us say
to-day, "I see what the joy is; it is the joy of always loving, it is the
joy of losing my own life in love to others." In connection with humility,
some one asks, "How about that text, 'In honor preferring one another?'"
When a soul comes into perfect humility before God it becomes nothing, and
God becomes all in all. I am nothing. There is no self to be affronted; I
have said before God: "I am nothing; it is only Thy life and light that
shines. The honor is Thine, and nothing may touch me but what is against
the glory of my God."
Beloved, are you living in the joy of the Holy Ghost? Come and accept a
blessing and give yourself up to live a life of humility in which you are
nothing, and a life of love like Christ's in which you only live for your
fellow-men, for the kingdom of God is the joy of the Holy Ghost.
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