Daily Word

What is the greatest thing on earth – the most profound and wonderful miracle that can happen to somebody?

A heart that loves God!

This is the fire that had died in our hearts because of sin, and in order to ignite it again on earth, Jesus had to go through tremendous anguish and distress.

Love for the Triune God is the surest sign of salvation and the new birth: when that is born in our heart, we know that we are born again.

Through the wonderful miracle of the new birth God has become our loving heavenly Father and we His beloved children, born of His love, born to love and worship Him.

The Holy Spirit is the fire of love for Jesus and He burns in our hearts with deep and intense love for Jesus our Lord and Saviour. He has become the greatest treasure and goal of our life and we gladly forsake everything to follow Him and become like Him.

The Holy Spirit, our Helper, has become our closest and most intimate friend and we love Him as much as we love our Father and Christ who have sent Him.

Loving God “with all our heart” is salvation, loving Him “with all our soul” is sanctification and loving Him “with all our strength” is perfection.

Sanctification implies that all inappropriate loves have been eradicated in us: we have entered through “the narrow gate, which leads to life.” Now we are crucified and dead to the alluring and deceptive lusts of the spirit of this world, and have truly become “strangers and pilgrims on the earth.”

The heavenly reality has become our deepest longing and focus.

Perfection means that we are “no longer children,” but have grown to become mature men and women through “the full knowledge of the Son of God, to a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ” (Eph.4:13-14).

Christ has been “formed” and manifest in us and we have become full and complete persons in Him. Our only desire is that at any cost and in every circumstance of life “Christ will be magnified” through us.

This is the greatest thing that can happen to any man!