[Songs in the Night - September 10]
[Love] beareth all things. I Corinthians 13:7
HAVE I the love that "beareth all things"; that is
impregnable against the assaults of evil; that resists
evil, impurity, sin, and everything that is contrary to
love; that is both able and willing to endure for the
cause of God, reproaches, reproofs, insults, losses,
misrepresentations, and even death?
"This is the victory
that overcometh the world, even your faith"—the very
life and center of which faith is the Holy Spirit of love
for the Lord and for those that are his, and sympathetically,
for the world.
Perfect love can bear up
under all circumstances and by God's grace, bring us
off conquerors and "more than conquerors through
him that loved us." Z'11-423 R4919:1 (Hymn 209)