How? By dwelling in God and God in us. Love is not a manufacture; it is a fruit. It is not born of certain works; it springs out of certain relations. It does not come from doing something; it comes from living with Somebody. |Abide in Me.| That is how love is born, for |love is of God, and God is love.|

How many people are striving who are not abiding. They live in a manufactory, they do not live in a home. They are trying to make something instead of to know Somebody. |This is life, to know Thee.| When I am related to the Lord Jesus, when I dwell with Him, love is as surely born as beauty and fragrance are born when my garden and the spring-time dwell together. If we would only wisely cultivate the fellowship of Jesus, everything else would follow in its train -- all that gracious succession of beautiful things which are called |the fruits of the Spirit.|

And |herein is our love made perfect.| It is always growing richer, because it is always drawing riches from the inexhaustible love of God. How could it be otherwise? Endless resource must mean endless growth. |Our life is hid with Christ in God,| and hence our love will |grow in all wisdom and discernment.|