Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 January 1918 — HOW TO LOVE IN GOD’S WAY [ARTICLE]

HOW TO LOVE IN GOD’S WAY

The Infinite Everlasting Never Failing Love of God Is Our Perfect Pattern. Love that depends on circumstances is not love. Love that grows deeper and better under the loved one’s response is not love. Perfect love, so perfect that it cannot be Improved upon, alone is real love. God loves us with that unimprovably perfect love; and we can love others with the same love. To have God’s own actual life as our literal life is the secret; and God’s perfect love offers to us his only son Christ, who is God, to be not only our Savior but our life and our love. When we accept God’s gift in entire faith in him, then “God abideth in us, and his love is perfected in us” (I John 4:12). H. G. Guinness has described this perfect and perfected love: "There is therefore a love which Is Infinite in its measure! There is a love which is everlasting in its duration ; which is omnipotent in its power, which is unchangeable In its character, which is all pervading in its presence, which pas Seth knowledge! There is a love which has creation for its theater, earth for its footstool, Heaven for its chief abode, its everlasting home! Of all created love it is the source, and of all blessings it is the giver!’’ And it is with exactly this supernatural love that God asks and enables us to love others, —“because as he Is, even so are we in this world” (I John 4:17). —S. 8. Times.