"Faith which works by love."

Love never works for wages. It has a different motive. It seeks not its own interest, but that of its object. It does not count how much it has already done, but keeps watch for what it may yet do. The hireling works for so much money; the legalist for so much happiness hereafter; the Christian works because he believes that God in love gave His Son for him, that Christ in love suffered to obtain his eternal salvation, and thus, his heart responsive to that love, animated by it, urges him to service for Christ's sake to all who have need of Christ. There is reward here and hereafter for such services, and God holds it up in His Word for encouragement, but the only motive with which the power of the Holy Spirit can be, is love.