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The Golden Chain of Love, June 16
A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I
have loved you, that ye also love one another. By this shall all men
know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.
John 13:34, 35
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The love of Christ is a golden chain that binds finite, human beings
who believe in Jesus Christ to the Infinite God. The love that the Lord has
for His children passeth knowledge. No science can define or explain it.
No human wisdom can fathom it.
Selfishness and pride hinder the pure love that unites us in spirit
with Jesus Christ. If this love is truly cultivated, finite will blend with
finite, and all will center in the Infinite. Humanity will unite with human-
ity, and all will be bound up with the heart of Infinite Love. Sanctified
love for one another is sacred. In this great work Christian love for one
another—far higher, more constant, more courteous, more unselfish, than
has been seen—preserves Christian tenderness, Christian benevolence,
and politeness, and enfolds the human brotherhood in the embrace of God,
acknowledging the dignity with which God has invested the rights of man.
The golden chain of love, binding the hearts of the believers in unity,
in bonds of fellowship and love, and in oneness with Christ and the Father,
makes the connection perfect and bears to the world a testimony of the
power of Christianity that cannot be controverted.... Then will selfishness
be uprooted and unfaithfulness will not exist. There will not be strife and
divisions. There will not be stubbornness in anyone who is bound up with
Christ. Not one will act out the stubborn independence of the wayward,
impulsive child who drops the hand that is leading him and chooses to
stumble on alone and walk in his own ways.
Love is a tender plant, and it must be cultivated and cherished, and
the roots of bitterness all have to be plucked up around it in order for it
to have room to circulate, and then it will bring in under its influence all
the powers of the mind, all the heart, so that we shall love God supremely,
and our neighbor as ourselves.
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