[Manna - September 30]
The love of Christ constraineth us. 2 Corinthians 5:14
IT seems impossible to describe love itself; the best
we can do is to describe its conduct.
Those who possess
a love with such characteristics are able to appreciate
it, but not able otherwise to explain it—it is of
God, Godlikeness in heart, in the tongue, in the hands,
in the thoughts—supervising all the human attributes
and seeking fully to control them....
As disciples or pupils of Christ, we are in His
school, and the great lesson which He is teaching us
day by day, and the lesson which we must learn thoroughly
if we would attain the mark of the prize of
our high calling in all its various features and ramifications,
is the lesson of love.
It takes hold upon and
relates to all the words and thoughts and doings of
our daily lives.
As the poet has said,
"As every lovely hue is light,—so every grace is love." Z.'03-55,58 R3150:2; R3151:5