The Test of Love | AdventAI

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Sep 9, 1886

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 12, No. 35.

The Test of Love.

HEART in religion is the main thing. We can never be perfect in knowledge, but we may be perfect in love. We can never know God fully, but we may love him with all our heart. This God requires, and this he esteems above everything else. Out of this will naturally grow obedience. “If ye love me,” says Christ, “keep my commandments.” Obedience is both the fruit and evidence of our love. A loving heart and an obedient life are inseparable. The one can not exist without the other. As soon as a man loves God he has the spirit of consecration, the spirit of obedience, the spirit of service; and while love continues to dominate the heart, that spirit of service manifests itself in the life. How true it is, then, that “love is the fulfilling of the law.” Heart religion is the only kind of religion that is worth having. It is the pure in heart that shall see God.—Methodist Recorder.