HOW TO RECEIVE LOVE
“He it was who told us of your love in the Spirit.” –Colossians 1:8 The Colossians received love in the Spirit. We also must receive God’s love, for “the man without love has known nothing of God, for God is Love” (1 Jn 4:8). “If I give everything I have to feed the poor and hand over my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing” (1 Cor 13:3). We receive God’s love by God’s grace. We can’t “make love.” Love is a gift and the fruit of the Spirit (Gal 5:22). We can’t produce love; we...