SUPERIORITY OF LOVE

The wisdom of the fathers

SUPERIORITY OF LOVE

John Wesley once said that if we are seeking anything other than more of God’s life of holy love we have gone astray from the true faith. Love is the bond of perfection. We are knit together in love. As Wesley puts it, every person who becomes a fanatic is a fanatic because of his lack of “lowly, humble, patient love.”?

All the actions of God originate and terminate in love. And when we are so melted and transformed by His Spirit that all our thoughts are loving thoughts, and all our judgments are conceived and uttered in a loving spirit, and all our labors are prompted with love to God and our neighbor, it is then that we are fitted by perfect similarity to live in an everlasting communion with Him in heaven.?

We can never become like God in His gifts and talents. But in love we may bear His full image. Thus, the greatest of these is love. Love has been perfected among us in this: that we may have boldness in the day of judgment; because as He is, so are we in this world. (1 John 4:17) Love does no harm to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfillment of the law. (Rom. 13:10)

(from "Love Abounding by G.D. Watson)