As to love among Christians, if we go looking for it, we shall be thoroughly disappointed; but if we are enabled to cultivate and manifest it, we shall be sure to get a great deal more than we expect or deserve. It will generally be found that those persons who are perpetually complaining of want of love in others are utterly failing in love themselves; and, on the other hand, those who are really walking in love will tell you that they receive a thousand times more than they deserve.
Let us remember that the best way to get water out of a dry pump is to pour a little water in. You may work at the handle and get no water, and then go away in fretfulness and impatience, complaining of that horrible pump. But, if you would just pour in a little water, you would get in return a gushing stream to satisfy your inmost desire.