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TRUE LOVE VS. FALSE LOVE

God is love! Beware of people who while expatiating on love and attempting to shine as its exponents do so at the expense of God’s character. Some of them affect to be so loving that they cannot admit that God could destroy Satan and the wicked as he declares he will do. Their argument sets themselves up as the standard, and they say, “Surely God cannot be less loving than I,—and I would save Satan and everybody.” Poor foolish hearts, “Going about to establish their own righteousness, they have not submitted themselves to that righteousness which is of God;” and of which God’s Word and conduct are the highest exponents. Thus their foolish heart becomes darkened. Those only will be loved of the Lord and kept from falling, and those only will be made up as his “jewels,” who reverence his Word and make up the standard of their judgment from it; and who do not attempt to pervert it to their own conceptions.

Beware of all who make a great palaver about love! for Satan often uses it as the garment of light to cover bad conduct or bad doctrines—whose real lovelessness he would thus screen from criticism. For instance, true love begins with God, and says, “Let God be true, if it prove every man a liar.” False love often is really self-love, which would not hesitate to trail even divine honor and love and justice in the dust, in order to glorify self as the founder of a theory; for instance, the theory which charges “all the sin and wickedness and crime” of the present and past upon God. Shall we suppose that those who thus blaspheme God’s holy name, and charge him with all the sin and deviltry of the past six thousand years, really love God with all their heart, mind, soul and strength? Surely not! The loving and appreciative heart recognizes God as the embodiment of the highest standard of love and justice, truth and righteousness. Such a theory would be an abomination to anyone possessing the true love of God even to a limited degree. Such should not even need the assurances of Scripture that it is “every good and perfect gift that cometh down from the Father of lights;” that “in him is no darkness [evil] at all;”—that “his work is perfect;” that “God tempteth no man” with evil, neither is he tempted by any.

If any man believe and speak according to such a theory, it is because there is no light in him; he is full of darkness.

See our issue of March 1, ’95, “Christian Common Sense.”

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— September 15, 1895 —