Gloria Copeland — Love The Secret to Your Success

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Gloria Copeland

Love. You hear a lot about it. But, the truth is, few
people really know what it is. For most, it’s an
emotional phantom that appears then vanishes
without warning. Illusive. Undefinable. Forever
sought, but rarely found.

Even believers seem to be confused about it at
times. But they don’t need to be. The Word of God
reveals clearly what love truly is.

Look at 2 John 6: “And what this love consists in is
this: that we live and walk in accordance with and
guided by His commandments (His orders, ordinances,
precepts, teaching.) This is the commandment, as
you have heard from the beginning, that you
continue to walk in love [guided by it and following
it]” (The Amplified Bible).

Quite simply, God says love is keeping His
commandments. That brings love out of the
indefinite into something explicit. But God has done
even more than define love for you.

He’s given you instructions so you can know how
to love as He loves. By giving you His Word, God
has given you His love manual in black and white!
All you have to do is follow it, and you’ll be walking
in love.

If you’ve made Jesus Christ the Lord of your life,
you’ve already taken the first step of obedience.
The love of God has been born within you. But,
unless you take action, that love will remain hidden
within you.

Love works in much the same way as the force of
faith. Faith is born into you when you are begotten
of God, but until you begin to act on God’s Word,
that powerful force lies dormant. The same is true
concerning the love of God. You can have the love
of God abiding within you and still be unable to
allow it to work through you to reach other people.
Like faith, love becomes active through knowledge
of the Word.

That’s why the Apostle Paul wrote to the church at
Philippi saying, “And this I pray, that your love may
abound yet more and more in knowledge and in all
judgment” (Philippians 1:9).

The love of God is released in your life by acting on
the knowledge of God’s Word. Without revelation
knowledge followed by action, love lies undeveloped
and selfishness continues to reign supreme in you
even though you are a new creature.

“But whoso keepeth his word, in him verily is the
love of God perfected: hereby know we that we
are in him. He that saith he abideth in him ought
himself also so to walk, even as he walked” (1 John
2:5-6).

As you act on God’s Word, the love of God will be
perfected in you. That’s when love will begin to
flow from you to others.