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Love
“Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another” (1 John 4:11).
Robert Cleaver Chapman was born in Helsingør, Denmark, on January 4th, 1803. Throughout much of his life he was known as the “Apostle of Love.” It was said of him that he not only preached the love of God, but he also lived it. He gave up a good position of prosperity in London, England to live among poor and working class people so that he could better minister the gospel and the truth of Scripture to them. He traveled hundreds of miles to bring the love of Christ to thousands of souls. He is noted as saying, “My business is to love and not to seek that others shall love me.” His caring and humble attitude had a marked impact on the lives of such men of faith as George Müller, J. Hudson Taylor, John Nelson Darby, and Charles Spurgeon. He deliberately avoided publicity because he did not want the attention that rightly belonged to the Lord.
What a testimony! It reminds me of the exhortation of the Apostle John: “My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth” (1 John 3:18). Ask yourself, “How can I show the love of Christ today?”
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