Love Has No Doubts

Last week, someone was talking to me about 1 John 4:18, "There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear: beacuse fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love." The essence of this is that when love is not perfect, it is not mature. However, God's perfect (mature) love brings forth confidence, boldness, AND faith. I think the most important part of it, though, is faith. God's love builds faith.

I was reading Smith Wigglesworth's "Ever Increasing Faith" today. I just want to share a portion of the book entitled "Love Has No Doubts." It truly ministered to me.


"There is one special phrase from our text to which I want to call your attention: "And does not doubt in his heart." The heart is the mainspring. Imagine a young man and a young woman. They have fallen in love at first sight. In a short while, there is a deep affection and a strong heart love, the one toward the other. What is a heart of love? It is a heart of faith. Faith and love are kin. In the measure that the young man and the young woman love one another, they are true. On may go to the North and theother to the South, but because of their love, they will be true to one another.

It is the same when there is a deep love in the heart toward the Lord Jesus Christ. In this new life into which God has brought us, Paul told us that we have become dead to the law by the body of Christ, so that we should be married to another, even to Him who is raise from the dead (Rom 7:4). God brings us into a place of perfect love and perfect faith. A man who is born of God is brought into an inward affection, a loyality to the Lord Jesus that shrinks from anything impure. You see the purity of a man and a woman when there is a deep natural affection between them; they disdain the very thought of either of them being untrue. In the same way, in the measure that a man has faith in Jesus, he is pure. He who belives that Jesus is the Christ overcomes the world (1 John 5:5). It is a faith that works by love (Gal 5:6).

Just as we have heart fellowship with our Lord, our faith cannot be daunted. We cannot doubt in our hearts. As we go on with God, there comes a wonderful association, an impartation of His very life and nature within. As we read His Word and believe the promises that He has so graciously given to us, we are made partakers of His very esssence and life. The Lord is made a Bridegroom to us, and we are His bride. His words to us are spirit and life (John 6:63), transforming us and changing us, expelling what is natural and bringing in what is divine.

It is impossible to comprehend the love of God when we think along natural lines. We must have the revelation from the Spirit of God. God gives liberally. He who asks, receives (Matt 7:8). God is willing to bestow on us all things that pertain to life and godliness (2 Pet. 1-3). Oh, it was the love of God that brought Jesus, and it is the samw love that helps you and me to believe. God will be your strength in every weakness (2 Cor 12:9-10). You who need His touch, remember that He loves you. If you are wretched, helpless, or sick, look to the God of all grace, whose very essence is love, who delights to give liberally all the inheritance of life and strength and power of which you are in need (pp. 17-18)."