Absolute Surrender: Our Love Shows God’s Power

Absolute Surrender

"The Fruit of the Spirit is Love"

By Andrew Murray 


Our Love Shows God’s Power


Why are we taught that “the fruit of the Spirit is love“? Because the Spirit of God has come to make our daily life an exhibition of divine power and a revelation of what God can do for His children.


In the second and the fourth chapters of Acts we read that the disciples were of one heart and of one soul. 

During the three years they had walked with Christ they never had been in that spirit. 

All Christ’s teaching could not make them of one heart and one soul. 

But the Holy Spirit came from Heaven and shed the love of God in their hearts, and they were of one heart and one soul. 


The same Holy Spirit that brought the love of Heaven into their hearts must fill us too.


Nothing less will do. Even as Christ did, one might preach love for three years with the tongue of an angel, but that would not teach any man to love unless the power of the Holy Spirit should come upon him to bring the love of Heaven into his heart.


Think of the church at large. 

What divisions! 


Think of the different bodies. 

Take the question of holiness, take the question of the  cleansing blood, take the question of the baptism of the Spirit— what differences are caused among dear believers by such questions! 


That there are differences of opinion does not trouble me. We do not have the same constitution and temperament and mind. 


But how often hate, bitterness, contempt, separation, unlovingness are caused by the holiest truths of God’s Word! 


Our doctrines, our creeds, have been more important than love. 


We often think we are valiant for the truth and we forget God’s command to speak the truth in love. 


And it was so in the time of the Reformation between the Lutheran and Calvinistic churches. What bitterness there was then in regard to the Holy Supper, which was meant to be the bond of union among all believers! 


And so, down the ages, the very dearest truths of God have become mountains that have separated us.


If we want to pray in power, and if we want to expect the Holy Spirit to come down in power, and if we want indeed that God shall pour out His Spirit, we must enter into a covenant with God that we love one another with a heavenly love.


Are you ready for that? 


Only that is true love that is large enough to take in all God’s children, the most unloving and unlovable, and unworthy, and unbearable, and trying. 


If my vow—absolute surrender to God—was true, then it must mean absolute surrender to the divine love to fill me; to be a servant of love to love every child of God around me. 


“The fruit of the Spirit is love.”


Oh, God did something wonderful when He gave Christ, at His right hand, the Holy Spirit to come down out of the heart of the Father and His everlasting love. 

And how we have degraded the Holy Spirit into a mere power by which we have to do our work! 


God forgive us! 


Oh, that the Holy Spirit might be held in honor as a power to fill us with the very life and nature of God and of Christ! 







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