Could there be any holy motivation to believe in Christ where there is no taste for the beauty of Christ? To be sure we could be motivated by the desire to escape hell, or the desire to have material riches, or the desire to rejoin a departed loved one. But how does it honor the Light when the only reason we come to the Light is to find those things that we loved in the dark? Is this saving faith?
- John Piper, senior pastor of Bethlehem Baptist Church in Minneapolis, MN.
