"We know that we have passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren."
Love is of God; there one comes to the fountain of all the love that supplies the trickling stream of love down here. But what we want is to have our hearts opened to the fountain for more love. It is a very trickling stream now, though very blessed to find ever so little. If God is love, and He fills His Christ with all this love, do not you and I want it to flow as rivers of refreshment through our souls? Oh, that we might taste more and more what that is! Does God's love dwell in us? Yes, because God says so; but the waters are choked up. Is there that eternal fullness flowing into the soul, the fullness of that matchless love that picked up the vilest sinners as channels for it to flow in?—love that settles the competency of people by the Holy Spirit in them, to understand what this love is that flows out from God and through Christ to them? Can you say individually that that love flowing from God is filling your soul to all fullness, and is as a river flowing from you?