“I feel I have lost my love for God,” said a young man to an old Christian. The reply was,
“That may be, but God has not lost His love for you.”
This recovered the doubting soul and let him into a truer occupation – with God and not with himself.
“Keep yourselves in the love of God” is not keep loving God as is sometimes thought, but abiding in the warmth of His unchanging love to you.