This is the third and concluding part of a follow-up to our past article, Are You Being "Taught of God to Love One Another?" (Second Quarter 2006) This article briefly amplifies upon how our godly love starts to grow, develop, and mature within us, after God has successfully planted it and firmly established it within us through the effectual working of Romans 12:3–8. For the proper background to this issue, please review the first and second follow-up articles in the two previous editions of the ETB Quarterly.

As our Father teaches us to love as He does, and thereby our godly love and charity grows and develops, then like a growing plant we also start to make an impact upon our environment.

Specifically we start by making a very favourable impact upon each other. For as we begin acquiring the further features of our Father’s love they instill greater functional life and joy into our living-union relationship as the "members one of another" that we are.

Hence we will develop features that will cause us to appreciate each other all the more, and also make us increasingly joy in each other.

But along with this we also begin making a very favourable impact upon "the creature" itself. For as it witnesses our godly love growing, it is able to appreciate all the more what it is going to be like when we are used by God to deliver it from its present state of vanity, and thereby it is glorified by becoming "the body of Christ."

So not only should we be very excited to have our godly love grow and develop for the reasons described in the opening of this article, but also for these additional reasons as well
 

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