Promoting the love of God

O thou son of the Kingdom! All things are beneficial if joined with the love of God; and without His love all things are harmful, and act as a veil between man and the Lord of the Kingdom. When His love is there, every bitterness turneth sweet, and every bounty rendereth a wholesome pleasure. For example, a melody, sweet to the ear, bringeth the very spirit of life to a heart in love with God, yet staineth with lust a soul engrossed in sensual desires. And every branch of learning, conjoined with the love of God, is approved and worthy of praise; but bereft of His love, learning is barren -- indeed, it bringeth on madness. Every kind of knowledge, every science, is as a tree: if the fruit of it be the love of God, then is it a blessed tree, but if not, that tree is but dried-up wood, and shall only feed the fire.

(Selections from the Writings of Abdu'l-Baha, p. 180)

I'm writing this with an imaginary reader in mind, someone who sees her heart possessed by Baha'u'llah. It could also possibly mean something to someone who sees her heart possessed by God, without thinking of it in Baha'i terms, or even without thinking of it in theistic terms.

I'm thinking of the activities of Baha'is and other people in the framework for action of the House of Justice. I'm imagining that some of that activity is joined with the love of God, and some isn't. As I understand it, that makes all the difference between the good and harm it can do.

I'm not imagining that it makes no difference what we do, as long as it's joined with the love of God. I'm intensely interested in promoting devotion to the interests of the House of Justice, and in that context the framework for action. I'm just turning my attention for now to the spirit of hearts possessed by God, and how to help develop and spread that spirit. Maybe it's as simple as practicing more awareness of when there's more of that spirit in what I'm doing, and doing more of that.

Another idea:

"From the texts of the wondrous, heavenly Scriptures they should memorize phrases and passages bearing on various instances, so that in the course of their speech they may recite divine verses whenever the occasion demandeth it, inasmuch as these holy verses are the most potent elixir, the greatest and mightiest talisman."

I might memorize passages about doing things in the right spirit, and recite them in my conversations with myself.