TO MAKE KNOWN LOVE

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Mar 18, 1903

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 29, No. 11.

TO MAKE KNOWN LOVE.

God is love; but what is love? We can give no satisfactory definition of life, light, or love—all three of which words are used to define God. We can only know what life, light, and love do—their essence we may not comprehend. We know what the love of God has done. “God so loved the world that He gave His only-begotten Son.” “In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent His only-begotten Son into the world, that we might live through Him.” “And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us.” In this we see how Christ came to destroy—to loosen, until free from—the works of the devil. Satan’s lie in the Garden of Eden, declaring that God was a hard, unkind, and unloving Being, was shown to be untrue. “Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us.” Believing in this manifested love, we have been freed from our hard thoughts of God, and have returned to His bosom, looking up into His face, crying, “Abba, Father.”—Selected.