I have often thought that to know Christ is to love Him. When I suppose it is possible to know about Him or of Him. To understand what He has done or to His status and preeminence. Yet I have come to learn that to love Jesus is more than doing what He says, but also it is about having a deep affection for who He is. We do what He says because we love Him.
Continuing in John Piper’s book, “What Jesus Demands from the World,” a new nature is required to produce the kind of love that is recognized by Him as authentic, meaningful, and deeper than anything for anyone or anything else. As He said in John 8:42, “If God were your Father, you would love me.” To say, in Piper’s words, “The reason you do not love me is that you are not in the family of God. You don’t have the family nature – the family spirit, the family heart, preferences, tendencies, inclinations. God is not your Father.”
Because of who He is and what He means to those who are His, the measure of love is infinite. His Spirit reveals to us that His glory, His presence, and His power make the all-surpassing desire to love Him overwhelmingly beyond anything or anyone.
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