p. 103 | Love | AdventAI

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Mar 14, 1871

Love.

“Get the heart, and you have got the man.” Love “makes drudgery divine.” Love cannot help itself; it outruns and leaves law far behind. The question is not, What must I do? but, What may I do? In grieving its object, love grieves itself. This is the secret spring of the believer’s actions, which makes him often pass in the world as an enthusiast. Love will stop at nothing; it takes up its cross and travels after its object over every mountain and hill of difficulty. It was this that strengthened Mary when the soldiers quaked with fear. It was this that kept her hovering round the sepulcher when all the disciples went to their own homes. Love desires all to be partakers of its own bliss; it overlaps human opinion; it runs on with an unceasing cry, “What shall I render for such benefits?” “Speak, Lord, for thy servant heareth.”