First-Hand Knowledge

It is one thing to know about the love of Christ, it is another to know it first-hand. The love of Christ is only truly known by faith and through trust. It must be fully received and fully relied upon if it is to be fully known. To say we know the love of Christ without submitting ourselves to it is intellectual dishonesty at best and emotional suicide as worst. The love of Christ is not a passive thing it is an active thing. It is actively seeking the best for us, drawing out the bad behavior, the self-reliance, and the sin that so easily entangles us. It is wooing us to better things, to a higher calling, to a more abundant life. It waters the spiritual fruit in our lives and prunes the dead branches. The love of Christ does not sit on a shelf waiting to be intellectually examined. It examines us. To know the love of Christ is to know and experience the examination of our hearts and our motives and to find ourselves bringing everything into the light of the love of Christ. The love of Christ gets to the heart of the matter. It is, above all, a matter of the heart.