"The primary effect and outcome of love is that we reconcile all conflicts in favor of the other. To love God with all our heart, soul, and might, therefore, means to reconcile every conflict between us and God in God's favor. If he asks us to do something we don't wanna do, we do it anyways. Our own purposes, goals, plans, desires, whatever, take second place to our executing the least of God's commands or requests. Also, we seek to advance God's purposes, so we teach his commandments, and not our own precepts nor doctrines, without fearing what men can do to us. And we accept all that it pleases God to inflict upon us, without trying to avoid it."
This policy, applied scrupulously, makes one a pauper in this world...but a god in the next.
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