This coming Sunday is the 3rd Sunday of Epiphany for those who are liturgically minded (I’m not, I have to look the dates us every week), and the readings are all connected with heeding the call to follow Jesus. For those who are preaching on the same passages as me here’s a cracking quote from ‘The Doctor’s’ – Joy Unspeakable (pg 202):
What should we be seeking? We should always be seeking the Lord Jesus Christ himself, to know him and to minister to his glory. This is what you find of course, in the New Testament itself. The apostle Paul says that the height if his ambition is ‘that I might know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings’ etc…
Now that is what we should seek. We believe in God, in the Lord Jesus Christ, in the doctrines of salvation. All right! But the question that confronts us at this particular point is not that of believing but love! A belief that does not lead to love is a very doubtful belief, it may be nothing but intellectual assent. The emphasis of the Bible is always upon love…
‘What is the first and chief commandment?’ Not that ‘thou shalt believe in the Lord thy God’, but that ‘thou shalt love the Lord thy God, with all thy heart, and all thy soul, and all they mind, and all thy strength.’ Is this true of us?
If you have yet to discover Lloyd-Jones I recommend you try him. He is not always an easy read, but persevere and you will not regret it.
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