Love Makes the Difference.
“Oh, it’s just as different as it can be!” said one of my young friends. “Why, being a Christian. Everything is so different from what I expected.” “When you used to talk to me about being a Christian, I used to say to myself, No; I can’t now, for I shall have to do so many hard things, and I never can do them!” “Oh! I used to think, now if I become a Christian, I shall have to walk just so; shall have to go to church and prayer-meeting; shall have to pray and read the Bible. It is so very different from what I thought.” “Why, James, what do you mean?” I exclaimed. “You do go to church and to prayer-meeting; you do read the Bible and pray; you do try to walk just right, do you not?” “Oh! yes,” answered James, looking up with a bright smile, “but then I love to do them. That makes all the difference! I love Jesus, and I love to do as he wishes me to.” Yes, love does make all the difference. “Love is the fulfilling of the law.”