All things for good by Watson (Available from Amazon or free here) - Read Chapter 6 (An exhortation to love God).
Firstly Watson gives us twenty motives for loving God.
Secondly Watson exhorts us to preserve our love for God and not let it die.
Thirdly Watson encourages us to increase our love to God.
I loved Watson's comparison between love for sin and love for God: 'If it is better to love God than the world, surely also it is better to love God than sin. What is there in sin, that any should love it? Sin is a debt. "Forgive us our debts" (Matt. vi. 12). It is a debt which binds over to the wrath of God; why should we love sin? Does any man love to be in debt? Sin is a disease. "The whole head is sick" (Isa. i. 5). And will you love sin? Will any man hug a disease? Will he love his plague-sores? Sin is a pollution. The apostle calls it "filthiness" (James i. 21). It is compared to leprosy and to poison of asps. God?s heart rises against sinners. "My soul loathed them" (Zech. xi. 8). Sin is a misshapen monster: lust makes a man brutish, malice makes him devilish. What is in sin to be loved? Shall we love deformity? Sin is an enemy. It is compared to a "serpent" (Prov. xxiii. 32). It has four stings — shame, guilt, horror, death. Will a man love that which seeks his death? Surely then it is better to love God than sin. God will save you, sin will damn you; is he not become foolish who loves damnation?'
What has sin done for us lately? And yet we love it and not God. Shame, shame, shame.
Next week's reading
Read Chapter 7 (Effectual calling).
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