Proverbs 23:26 My son, give me your heart, and let your eyes observe my ways. 1. It likes to be with the object of its affection. 2. There is the presence of a desire to serve the object of its affection. Love is tireless in ministry. It is always giving itself away. 3. It desires union with its object in thought, if not in body. Love never journeys unaccompanied by love. 4. The chief characteristic of love is its unselfishness. Is your love for God unselfish, or do you love Him only as a means of securing His favour? Your duty is to set yourself to apprehend God. To know Him is to love Him, and your not loving Him shows that you do not know Him. The question which concerns your highest happiness, here and hereafter, is not touching technicalities of creed, of ceremony, of intellectual interpretation of selected passages out of God's Word. The supreme question is, Do you love God? (W. H. H. Murray.) Parallel Verses KJV: My son, give me thine heart, and let thine eyes observe my ways.WEB: My son, give me your heart; and let your eyes keep in my ways. |
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