For Monday July 25, 2022:
DO YOU REALLY LOVE HIM?
John 21:17 (NKJV)
He said to him the third time, “Simon, son of Jonah, do you love Me?”
Peter was grieved because He said to him the third time, “Do you love Me?”
And he said to Him, “Lord, You know all things; You know that I love You.”
Jesus said to him, “Feed My sheep.
Do you love the Lord Jesus Christ—really? Now I know we sing that we do. We sing things that aren’t very true sometimes. Do you really love Christ?
A half-comical answer was given to Moody one time when he inquired of a man on the street, “Do you love Jesus?” He answered, “I have nothing against Him.” I think that is about as far as a lot of people go. We have nothing against Jesus, but can we say we love Him? . . .
When I read the writings of the old mystics and the devotional writers and hymn writers of the Middle Ages and later, I get sick in my heart and I tell God, “God, I’m sorry; I apologize and I’m ashamed. I don’t love You the way these loved You.” Read the letters of Samuel Rutherford . . . and then see how sick it’ll make you. You’ll fold that book shut and get down on your knees very likely and say, “Lord Jesus, do I love You at all considering that this was love? Then what have I, what have I got?”
FOR THE LOVE OF GOD 
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