Courtesy of Dr. John Piper from his book When I Don’t Desire God….
“Jesus once described his coming like this: ‘The light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light because their works were evil’ (John 3:19). Here the issue of salvation is loving or hating the light. Love darkness, or love light. That’s the crisis of the soul. But what is love for darkness? It’s preferring darkness, liking darkness, wanting darkness, running to darkness, being glad with darkness. But all of that is what Jesus demands for himself: ‘Prefer my light like my fellowship, want my wisdom, run to my refuge, be glad in my grade. Above all, delight in me as a Person.’ Look around on all that the world can give; then say with the apostle Paul, ‘My desire is to depart and be with Christ, for that is far better’ (Phil. 1:23). That is what it means to love Christ. And to have no love for Him is to be accursed.”
Ooh, I want this one too…I’m gonna see if they have this at the bookstore. Thanks for the scoop.
April 28th, 2008 at 10:21 am