“Love is not first a feeling. Though the feelings come later
and grow thick in the basic loam of love, they don't constitute the sum and
substance of love. Love is doing whatever good God
says you must do for another, to please God, whether (at first) it pleases you
or not. You must do so because He says so; and you don't wait until you feel
like doing so. Love begins with obedience toward God in which one gives to
another whatever the other needs. Love is not a gooey, sticky sentimental
thing; it is hard to love. Often it hurts to love. Love meant going to the
cross through the garden
of Gethsemane. Christ did
not feel like dying for your sins, Christian, but He did so nonetheless. The
Scriptures teach that he endured the cross while focusing on the subsequent joy
that it would bring.” ― Jay Adams
~Brittany
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