LOVE

LOVE

What you love best discloses your character, for you value and seek what you love.

Necessity seeks relief, but never thinks of love. What a surprise to the prodigal to be met by love!

^[p. 461] He had not calculated on that. If you would be perfectly happy, live entirely for Christ here. No one is so unhappy as the man who makes himself the object of all his concern. Out of nothing nothing comes, and as we are nothing in ourselves when we are engrossed with ourselves in any way, we are sure to be like one dropping buckets into empty wells and growing old in drawing nothing up! The learning in discipline is generally about oneself, that gained in friendship with the Lord is about Himself and His interests; the first is experience, the second more the deep things of God.

Standing in present favour supposes future glory!