November 20, 2015

          “Spiritual strides quicken in response to love.  The more you love, the quicker will you grow in holiness.  Works are priceless, theology is a basic need, spiritual aspirations and desires are fruitful, yet without love, the fire has no wood to kindle.  Give me a soul with love in the heart and I will show you a true saint.  Maybe this soul cannot read or write.  Maybe this soul has no doctrinal aptitude.  Maybe this soul is unlearned and unchurched.  If there is love, there is God.  All souls have not been given the graces of doctrinal teaching.  Maybe they have never picked up a spiritual book.  How can they attain to sanctity?  By love alone.  God is love and he that abides in love abides in God.

          “By their fruits you shall know them.”  “The fruit of the Spirit is love” foremost.  A man may be learned in every area of spiritual formation, but if God’s loving fruitfulness is lacking in his life, all that learning is straw to be burned.

          I see that African woman living in a mud hut.  She has never picked up a book or listened to spiritual teaching, yet her heart is on fire with love for her Creator.  She is a saint.

          Many learned men have a head full of knowledge, yet they have not truly met the Giver of this knowledge, the God of burning love.  They have good intentions, but they have mistaken the firewood for the fire.

          The souls that are in love with Me radiate My atmosphere of loving peace.  They do not judge; they love.  They let Me do the judging.  Their eyes are so blinded by love that it is nearly impossible for them to judge another.  They love people into doing right.  Souls respond to this unconditional love.  They follow this atmosphere of love straight into My Father’s arms.  Every soul craves love and when they find it, they run eagerly to embrace it.

          Permeate your atmosphere with My love.  My radiance through you will draw souls to My Father’s Heart of love.

Jesus, Greatest Lover