[Manna - May 24]
Love...is not easily provoked. 1 Corinthians 13:5
HOWEVER natural depravity, and heredity, and
nervous disorders may tend toward the spirit of fretfulness,
taciturnity, and touchiness, every heart filled
with the Lord's Spirit must oppose this disposition to
evil in his flesh, and must wage a good warfare against
it.
It will not do to say, "It is my way;" for all the
ways of the fallen nature are bad: it is the business of
the new nature to overcome the old nature in this as
well as other works of the flesh and the devil: and few
show to our friends and households more than this of
the power of the grace of Love.
This grace as it grows
should make every child of God sweet-tempered. Z.'97-247 R2204:4