IF WE LOVE GOD --- WE WILL LOVE HIS CHILDREN

    By A. W. Tozer

        The Apostle John makes love for our fellow
    Christians to be a test of true faith. "My little children,
    let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed
    and in truth. And hereby we know that we are of the
    truth, and shall assure our hearts before him"
    1 John  3:18, 19.

        Again he says, "Beloved, let us love one
    another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth
    is born of God, and knoweth God. He that loveth not
    knoweth not God; for God is love"   1 John 4:7, 8.

        As we grow in grace we grow in love toward all
    God's people. "Every one that loveth him that begat
    loveth him also that is begotten of him" 1 John 5:1.
    This means simply that if we love God, we will love
    His children.  All true Christian experience will deepen
    our love for other Christians.

       Therefore we conclude that whatever tends to separate
    us in person or in heart from our fellow Christians is not
    of God, but is of the flesh or of the devil.

       And conversely, whatever causes us to love the children
    of God is likely to be of God. "By this shall all men know
    that ye are My disciples, if ye have love one to another"
   John 13:35.

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    Yours in Christ,
    Paul N. F.