HH 16
. . . to love the Lord and to love the neighbor
is to love what is good and true,
and to do this from the will,
. . . that one demonstrates love
by willing and doing what another wishes,
and it is this that brings reciprocal love and conjunction,
and not loving another without doing what he wishes,
which in itself is not loving;
also that people should know
that the good that goes forth from the Lord is a likeness of Him,
since He is in it;
and that those who make good and truth to belong to their life
by willing them and doing them
become likenesses of the Lord and are conjoined to Him.
Willing is loving to do.
That this is so the Lord teaches in the Word, saying,
He that has My commandments and does them, he it is that loves Me;
and I will love him and will make My abode with him.
(John 14:21, 23)
And again:
If you do My commandments, you will abide in My love.
(John 15:10)
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"Willing is loving to do."
I love this!
Some related quotes,
o Every delight and pleasure, and therefore everything that belongs
to the will, is from affection which is of love. DP 76
o These two, delight and pleasure, are spiritual in the mind but
natural in the body, and in both planes they constitute man's life.
DP 195.3
. . . . .
o Disposition is from the affection of the will's love, and that
which disposes is the delight of that love. TCR 155
o As man is man in accord with what his love is, so is he man in
accord with what his delight is. TCR 570.5
o Everything that is according to love is delightful; therefore,
the quality of the love can be known from the delight. AC 7371
. . . . .
o The delight which is meant by heavenly joy, and by eternal happiness,
is from no other source than the love of truth and of good. AC 10530
o To do good from the delight of love appears to be Freedom, and also
is Freedom, because it is from the Lord. AC 9586
From Glenn
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