We love him, because he first loved us. 1 John 4:19

As I was looking through a commentary on this passage of scripture (1 John 4:17-19), I saw this commentary by Spurgeon on this one verse and it immediately had my name written all over it, and I realized the truth it contained.

“Yet we must not try to make ourselves love our Lord, but look to Christ’s love first, for his love to us will beget in us love to him. I know that some of you are greatly distressed because you cannot love Christ as much as you would like to do, and you keep on fretting because it is so. Now, just forget your own love to him, and think of his great love to you; and then, immediately, your love will come to something more like that which you would desire it to be.” (Spurgeon)

So many times I feel I fail to love God the way I know I should, the way I want to, until I see or hear something that emphasizes His love for me, and then I know how deep my love for Him is, even if it is incomparable to His love for me. The movie "The Passion of the Christ" is one that does this for me, another is the song "How Deep the Father's Love".



I just love reading Spurgeon because he understands where I am coming from and expresses what I need to know in just the way I will understand it. I praise God for servants like that!