“Love for others really begins, continues, and is daily motivated by love for God. When His purposes are more important than my desires, when His glory is more valuable to me than my temporary moments of glory, and when His agenda activates me more than my own plan for myself, I will be freed from my bondage to self-love and be freed to love others. It really is true. Our relationships need more than horizontal fixing. They need vertical rescue, and for that there is the ever-sufficient grace of a willing and patient Savior.”
(New Morning Mercies by Paul Tripp, August 9)
