It is hard to love God. It is hard to love Jesus. I am not talking in the formal sense. I am talking in the difficulty of being human sense. We are too flawed and too self-seeking and we have too many things pulling at our desires. We know we don’t love Jesus as we should, and sometimes we don’t love Him at all. Ouch.
Here are the hardest words from 1 Peter 1
Though you have not seen him, you love him. (see verse 8)
If we read that honestly we know we fall far short of it. Ouch.
Why would Peter write such a sentence when he himself was confronted about his own love for Jesus (See John 21:15-19)? And how could Peter really know them (a LOT of people in FIVE geographical areas, see verse 1), and know all their private thoughts and desires?
No one has an answer to those questions.
But the difficulty of the words points us somewhere. We are to love Jesus and He should be our greatest desire and our greatest pleasure. Or said differently, we all know, when the moments hit us, that there is NOTHING better or more pleasurable than loving God. It is the greatest pleasure we know.
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