LOVE IS CORRECTIVE

It is important to see that love is corrective. There is no principle so exclusive as love. It excludes everything that is unseemly or unworthy. You cannot tolerate in others what you do not allow in yourself. If you are exclusive in regard of yourself you must be so in regard of others. Divine love cannot tolerate what is unseemly, but it can adapt itself to incongruous surroundings. We see that coming out in Christ Himself; He adapted Himself to the circumstances in which He was found down here upon earth. Meekness and lowliness are the outcome of love in a scene of contrariety. In heaven there will be no need of patience or endurance or meekness. It is here that these qualities are called for, and they are found in love.

F. E. Raven (Vol. 19, p.493)

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