Love to God as a Controlling Principle

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Sep 9, 1913

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 40, No. 35.

Love to God as a Controlling Principle

Love to God is not an emotion or feeling; it is a controlling, molding principle, born of the Spirit of God, and acting as the mainspring of all true motives. Feelings of joy and peace are realized by those who have this love; but they are the results of the exercise of that love rather than constituent and ever-present elements. Sometimes feeling departs, joy is dead, hope is well-nigh gone; but love shines still, believes God still, trusts Him still. It hates sin, but loves the sinner, and would save him, not in sin, in man's way, but from sin, in God's way.