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Learning To Love - Learning To Savor The Love Of God
I have felt most sorry for my sins when the sun comes out. I recall being very irritated with my wife, Noël, one morning. I said some harsh and unkind things. In a huff, I picked up the garbage can and took it out to the street. As I set the garbage by the curb, the sun came out and filled the spring morning with luscious, yellow-green light. The morning breeze was cool on my face and the sunlight warm on my skin.
I stood at the bottom of the driveway and felt overwhelmed by the love of God. And I felt brokenhearted for my sin. If lightning had struck me, there would have been justice in it. But instead, the Almighty caressed me with a gentle wind and warmed me with the morning sun. I knew at that moment why Jonathan Edwards said, "A truly Christian love . . . is a humble brokenhearted love The joy [of saints], even when it is unspeakable and full of glory, is a humble, brokenhearted joy. . ."
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John Piper
PastorJohn Piper, is a theologian, pastor, and chancellor of Bethlehem College & Seminary in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Piper taught biblical studies at Bethel University for six years before serving as pastor for preaching and vision of Bethlehem Baptist Church in Minneapolis for 33 years (1980-2013). He is the author of numerous books which include Desiring God, Future Grace, and his most recent publication, Providence. He attended Wheaton College from 1964-1968 and majored in literature and philosophy. He earned a Bachelor of Divinity degree at Fuller Theological Seminary and later completed his doctorate in New Testament Studies from the University of Munich, Germany. Through the ‘Desiring God Ministries’ that started in 1994 over 2 billion people around the world have been impacted.
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