Growing in love is a very conscious choice. It’s like you’ve taken a boiling pot and let it simmer. There is a constancy to growing in love that falling in love can’t give you. The lid isn’t ready to blow off every few minutes because you’ve taken all that power and learned how to concentrate it in order to create something with the power to last without burning itself up.
This was to fulfill what was spoken by the prophet: “I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter what has been hidden...
If you believe, as I do, that the goal of ministry is the all-satisfying gladness of your people’s hearts in the glory of Christ,...
