JESUS
CHRIST: LOVE FOR

Do you love the Lord Jesus Christ—really? Now I know we sing that we do. We sing things that aren’t very true sometimes. Do you really love Christ?

A half-comical answer was given to Moody one time when he inquired of a man on the street, “Do you love Jesus?” He answered, “I have nothing against Him.” I think that is about as far as a lot of people go. We have nothing against Jesus, but can we say we love Him?…

Do you love Jesus—really? It is possible to be a Christian, that is, to have faith in His power, in His work, in His atonement. It is even possible to have a vital relation to Him in the new birth and yet not have cultivated His fellowship to a point where we love Him very much. We’re not finished until the love attachment to Christ has become so strong that it burns and glows and consumes.

Matthew 22:37–39; Luke 7:40–47; 1 Peter 1:6–7

Success and the Christian, 75, 76, 77.