Ability to love

“Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us, and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins. Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.” (1 John 4:10-11)

What separates us from the world? The grace of God gives us the ability to love one another when our flesh strives to do the opposite. 

THE law commands love, indeed, all its precepts are summed up in that one word, “love.” More widely read it runs like this, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your strength, and with all your mind; and your neighbor as yourself.” Yet all this amounts only to, “You shall love.”
But the law, by reason of our depravity, never produced love. 

We were commanded to love, but we did no such thing. The spirit that is in us is selfish, and it lusts to envy and to war. Why do wars and fights come among us? They come from our lusts. 

All that the law can do is to show the wrong of war and hatred and threaten punishment, but it cannot supply an unregenerate heart with a fountain of love. Man remains unloving and unlovable till the gospel takes him in hand, and by grace accomplishes that which the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh. 

Love is winning many hearts to the kingdom of God, and its reign shall extend till love shall rule over the whole earth. And so the kingdom of God shall be set up among men, and God shall dwell among them. At the present moment love is the distinguishing mark of the people of God. Jesus said, “By this shall all men know that you are My disciples, if you have love, one to another.” Charles Spurgeon

Love one another!

GiGi❤️