Love Heals Many Wounds

[Thompson, Darryl]

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Ellen G. White Estate, Devotional for February 14
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Love Heals Many Wounds

Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that
loveth is born of God, and knoweth God. 1 John 4:7

>From the Christian standpoint, love is power. Intellectual and spiritual
strength are involved in this principle. Pure love has special efficacy
to do good, and can do nothing but good. It prevents discord and misery
and brings the truest happiness. Wealth is often an influence to corrupt
and destroy; force is strong to do hurt; but truth and goodness are the
properties of pure love.
A man at peace with God and his fellow men cannot be made miserable.
Envy will not be in his heart; evil surmising will find no room there;
hatred cannot exist. The heart in harmony with God is lifted above the
annoyances and trials of this life.
That which Satan plants in the heart-envy, jealousy, evil surmising,
evil speaking, impatience, prejudice, selfishness, covetousness, and
vanity-must be uprooted. If these evil things are allowed to remain in
the soul, they will bear fruit by which many shall be defiled. Oh, how
many cultivate the poisonous plants, that kill out the precious fruits
of love and defile the soul!
Only the love that flows from the heart of Christ can heal. Only He in
whom that love flows, even as the sap in the tree or the blood in the
body, can restore the wounded soul.
Love's agencies have wonderful power, for they are divine. The soft
answer that "turneth away wrath," the love that "suffereth long, and is
kind," the charity that "covereth a multitude of sins"-would we learn
the lesson, with what power for healing would our lives be gifted! How
life would be transformed, and the earth become a very likeness and
foretaste of heaven!

>From Devotional: Our Father Cares, p. 50, 51.