His Great Love: the Law Written Within

  The following is from J. Rufus Moseley as recorded in the book Ineffable Union With Christ:  Living in the Kingdom (Selected Writings of J. Rufus Moseley, 1927-1937) compiled and edited by Gregory S. Camp:

"[Don't close] the channel of receiving and giving.  The person in union with the Lord and rejoicing in the Lord, and he who is outflowing always in the Lord's love and kindness is in a state of victory and is going on to greater victory.  There is no defeat except in separation from the Lord and in failure to love and to bless.

"Union with the Lord makes loving and giving divinely natural, and loving and sharing in the Spirit of the Lord keeps and increases union with the Lord.

". . . One is a wretched man so long as one part of him wants to obey God and the other part is given over to appetites, lusts, and selfishness.  Deliverance comes, as St. Paul says [in Romans 7 and 8], through union with Christ.  Through this union one comes under the new law of love, the law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus, and is set free from the law of sin and death. 

"As one lives according to this new law, that is, lives in the Spirit and bears the fruit of the Spirit, even the body is brought in the quickening and transforming glory that raised Jesus Christ from among the dead.  The body is not made for lust and appetite, but to be the temple of the Holy Ghost.

"When the mind and heart are stayed on the Lord and when we are in Him and He in us, outflowing in joy, peace, and goodness, the whole being is in heavenly places with Christ.

". . . When temptations come there is the conscious desire to keep in union with Him and the prayer to be kept from yielding to temptation.  When we prize abiding and fellowship with Him and pleasing Him above the things that bring separation, nothing will be able to separate us from the witness of His love, care, and keeping power.

"As the Spirit and experience are always teaching, since He is love, in order to keep in the wonder of His love we must be loving, and loving all the time to everyone."