Our Love to God # 2

Our Love To God # 2

Here are a few TESTS of true love to God:

1. Have you been convicted of and made to mourn over your natural enmity against God, that not only was your heart dead as a stone toward Him - but filled with antagonism to and dis-relish of Him?

2. Do you love God for His holiness as well as His grace? Has it wrought in you a filial fear of displeasing Him, so that you jealously watch your heart lest it lead you away fro Him and His ways (Heb. 12:28).?

3. Does love to God regulate your life, influence your walk, and move you to obedience?

4.  Is it weaning you from the creature, separating you from the world, delivering from the things opposed to sincere good love for God?

5. Do you love His truth? Some pretend to love all preachers and preaching alike - incapable of distinguishing error from truth.

6. Does it cause you to entertain good thoughts of God when His dispensations cross your will, moving you to place the best construction on the same and attributing them to His wisdom? For "love thinks no evil" (1 Corinthians 13:15).

7. God is truly loved above all others, when no affection for the creature can draw us deliberately to sin against Him (Job. 2:9-10).

8. God is truly loved, when we gladly incur and endure the displeasure and frowns of our fellows, rather than offend against Him (Luke 14:26).

9. God is truly loved, when we make it our principal concern to please Him, rather than gratify the flesh or promote our worldly interests.

10. God is truly loved when the heart is wounded and grieved at the dishonor done to Him all around us (Psalm 119:53).

If your love has waned and you long for it to be revived - do not doubt God's love for you (for that will further weaken it), but look again at Christ on the Cross. The best food for our love - is to feed on His love.

~A. W. Pink~

(The End)