definitely. How vast the space between the untutored
savage, doing everything with his hands, and the merchant prince, who
has but to press the ivory-plated pushes fixed upon the walls of his
room! But not less is the difference between the work we can
accomplish by our natural resources, and that which we achieve when we
recognize that what is impossible to us is possible to Him who has come
in to abide. I cannot; but God is within me, and He can.

II. THE CONDITIONS OF THE DIVINE IMMANENCE.--(1) Love to Christ.--"He
that loveth Me shall. . . ." We would love Him, but how? Do not think
of your love, but of His. "Love is of God." Open the shutters of your
being toward the love of God; we love because He first loves. Love is
the reflection from us of what we have first received from God.

Love is shed abroad in the heart by the Holy Spirit. The fruit of the
Spirit is Love. Seek the in-filling and in-working of the Spirit; be
careful to obey His promptings to love; avoid grieving Him by
bitterness, wrath, or evil speaking; sit as His willing pupil in the
school of love; cast on Him the responsibility of securing in your
nature obedience to the primal law which is fulfilled in the one word,
"Thou shalt love."

Beneath the nurturing grace of the Spirit, we shall be led to meditate
much on the love of Jesus to us, especially as manifested in the death
of the cross; and as we muse, the fire will burn, love will glow, and
afford the condition of soul which is infinitely attractive to the
Divine Lover, who requires our love, and produces the love which He
requires.

(2) Obedience to Christ.--Where there is true love, there will be
obedience. This rather than emotion. Many a sincere soul who
questions its love, because its emotions are low or fluctuating, would
rather die than disobey the least jot or tittle of His commandments.
Such a one loves. "He that hath My commandments" (treasured in memory
and heart), "he it is that loveth Me." Why do ye call Him, Lord, Lord,
and do not the things that He says? There may be the luscious language
of the lip, but it does not deceive Him. He looks under the leaves for
fruit.

Disobedience robs the soul of the sweet sense of Christ's indwelling.
Nothing can compensate for failure to obey. Whatever the
protestations, there is no real love to Christ where His commands are
knowingly disregarded and set at nought. But each time we dare to step
out in simple obedience