Love's ministry

"Serve one another in love." Galatians 5:13

There is need everywhere for love's ministry . The world today needs nothing more than true Christlikeness in those who bear Christ's name and represent Him. Christ went about doing good; He sought to put hope and cheer into all He met.

If Christ is in us, we should strive to perpetuate this Christ-ministry of love in this world.

Hearts are breaking with sorrow, men are bowing under burdens too heavy for them.

Their duties are too large, their battles are too hard. It is our mission, if Christ is in us, to do for these weary, heavy-burdened, defeated, and despairing ones — what Christ Himself would do, if He were standing where we stand.

He wants us to represent Him; and He fills us with His Spirit, that we may be able to scatter the blessings of helpfulness and gladness all about us.

Yet one of the saddest things about life is, that, with so much power to help others by kindliness of word and kindliness of act — many of us pass through the world in silence or with folded hands.

"Little children, let us not love with word or with tongue, but in deed and truth." 1 John 3:18

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