LOVE DEMANDED by H. W. Reed

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · May 1, 1900

LOVE DEMANDED.

By H. W. Reed

H. W. REED.

(Milwaukee, Wis.)

God’s law demands supreme love to God from all his children, yes, from all created intelligences. Now the question is, How can we show that love which the law demands? We will allow God to answer this, which he does in 1 John 5: 3: “This is the love of God, that we keep his commandments.”

This is the love of God, and it is shown by our obedience. Children show their love to their parents by rendering obedience to them. A child who has true parental love will not continue in doing that which is forbidden by the parent. It may have ignorantly disobeyed the loving parent; but when informed of its disobedience, it will then cease to disobey, and instead will render cheerful obedience.

So it has been, and to-day is, with thousands of God’s dear children. They have ignorantly disobeyed one of God’s commands. This has been done in respect to the fourth commandment, as the testimony of thousands of honest Christian men and women has already testified.

A person need not be a prophet in order to say that before long, thousands of confessions of having ignorantly violated the Sabbath commandment will be made. Through ignorance many have violated the law of God by observing the first day instead of the seventh, but now as light is coming to the honest in heart, they will see their error and turn away from it. Such will render supreme love to God, in harmony with the requirements of the divine law.