quoted from pastor Chan. He challenged us,as a believer, can we honestly say, we are in love with jesus?
I’ve been in some beautiful places around this earth, traveling around and it’s interesting because so many of those places as beautiful as they are, I don’t really enjoy it because maybe my wife couldn’t come with me. I don’t know if you’ve ever been in a place where everything’s beautiful except the person you love isn’t there. And suddenly it’s like oh, it doesn’t matter how beautiful the scenery is, it’s different because I wanted to experience it with her and is that true of your relationship with Jesus Christ, that it’s Him that you’re madly in love with. And heaven wouldn’tbe heaven without Him because the other stuff is just stuff.
A lot of times, people attend church, not because they really want to know Him, they come because they want something from Him. They like Him for what He offers but how many really love Him. I read a quote a few years back that just absolutely floored me. It was in a book by a man named John Piper, called God is the Gospel.
And in this book, he asks this question, he says the critical question for our generation and for every generation is this: if you could have heaven with no sickness and with all the friends you ever had on earth, and all the food you ever liked and all the leisure activities you ever enjoyed, and all the natural beauties you ever saw, all the physical pleasures you ever tasted and no human conflict or any natural disasters, could you be satisfied with heaven if Christ was not there. It was a great question. He goes come on, you can have everything, you can have heaven right now. No more pain, no more tears, all the friends you ever had, all the physical pleasures you’ve ever experienced, no pain, no conflict, all the beauty but Jesus wasn’t there, could you be content? Could you honestly
answer no, I couldn’t stand that because I love Him. I’d have to have Him there.If He’s not there, then its not heaven. See that’s what it means to be in love with Jesus and not just the things that He offers. Otherwise it would be no different than marrying someone for their money. That’s about saying I love Jesus Christ. I love him.
Can I say I am in love with Jesus?