Now here is a closing test to see if you have penetrated to the essence of God’s merciful God-centeredness. Ask yourself and your people, “Do you feel most loved by God because He makes much of you or because He frees you to enjoy making much of Him forever?” This is the test of whether our craving for the love of God is a craving for the blood-bought, Spirit-wrought capacity to see and glorify God by enjoying Him forever or whether it is a craving for Him to make us the center and give us the pleasures of esteeming ourselves. Who, in the end, is the all-satisfying Treasure that we are given
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