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The Long Lesson of Love
"God is love" (I John 4:16).
To learn how to love – is to learn how to live. The lesson is a long one - but it is the great business of life. The Master not only taught the lesson in words – but also set it down for us in a life – His own life. To follow Christ is to practice this great lesson, learning more of it day by day – until school is out.
Divine love has to be learned. There is natural affection which does not need to be learned – the love of parents for children, of children for parents, of friend for friend; but it is not natural to love our enemies, to love unlovable people, to be unselfish, to return kindness for unkindness. We have to learn this love – and it is the great business of life.
"Beloved, since God so loved us - we also ought to love one another" (I John 4:11).
J. R. Miller (1840-1912)
The Lesson of Love (1903)