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John Piper wrote this today, and I want to echo each of these statements in my own life:

So here at the beginning of 2009, I join James Morgan in saying, “I love Jesus Christ.”

And as I say it, I want to make clear what I mean:

• I admire Jesus Christ more than any other human or angelic being.
• I enjoy his ways and his words more than I enjoy the ways and words of anyone else.
• I want his approval more than I want the approval of anyone else.
• I want to be with him more than I want to be with anyone else.
• I feel more grateful to him for what he has done for me than I do to anyone else.
• I trust his words more fully than I trust what anyone else says.
• I am more glad in his exaltation than in the exaltation of anyone else, including me.

Read Piper’s whole post.

Recently, I have benefited a ton from the Heidelberg Catechism, specifically the second question:

2. Q. What do you need to know in order to live and die in the joy of this comfort?

A. First, how great my sins and misery are;[1] second, how I am delivered from all my sins and misery;[2] third, how I am to be thankful to God for such deliverance.[3]

[1] Rom. 3:9, 10; I John 1:10. [2] John 17:3; Acts 4:12; 10:43. [3] Matt. 5:16; Rom. 6:13; Eph. 5:8-10; I Pet. 2:9, 10.

Read the full Catechism here.

What an incredible verse John 8:58 is:
“Jesus said to them, ‘Truly, truly, I say to you, before Abraham was, I am.’”

Lately, I’ve been interested in Scripture (particularly the Gospels) where Jesus is mentioned as God.  It doesn’t get clearer than this.

Read it in context here.