September 4

Let love expel self

“The fruit of the Spirit is love” (Gal. 5:22).
“And the greatest of these is love” (1 Cor. 13:13—R.V.).

“The fruit of the Spirit is love.” Why? Because nothing but love can expel and conquer our selfishness. Self is the great curse, whether in its relation to God, or to our fellowmen, or to fellow Christians; thinking of ourselves and seeking our own. Self is our greatest curse. But, praise God, Christ came to redeem us from self. We sometimes talk about deliverance from the self-life—and praise God for every word that can be said about it to help us. But I am afraid some people think deliverance from the self-life means this: Now I am going to have no longer any trouble to myself in serving God; and they forget that deliverance from the self-life means to be a vessel overflowing with love to everybody all the day.

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