Sunday, January 27, 2008

How much do we Love the Lord? Part 5

I have been reading a book by John Piper entitled, A Hunger for God, Desiring God Through Fasting and Praying. In the introduction on page 23, he writes, “The more deeply you walk with Christ, the hungrier you get for Christ . . . the more homesick you get for heaven . . . the more you want “all the fullness of God” . . . the more you want to be done with sin . . . the more you want the Bridegroom to come again . . the more you want the Church revived and purified with the beauty of Jesus . . . the more you want a great awakening to God’s reality in the cities . . . the more you want to see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ penetrate the darkness of all the unreached peoples of the world . . . the more you want to see the false worldviews yield to the force of Truth . . . the more you want to see pain relieved and tears wiped away and death destroyed . . . the more you long for every wrong to be made right and the justice and grace of God to fill the earth like the waters cover the sea.”
My prayer is for all of the readers to walk deeply with Christ and have all these wants in our minds and hearts. Amen.

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