Monday Musings - Do You Really Love God?

Dr. Peter Kreeft - teacher and author extraordinaire -  is one of those gifted men blessed with the ability to answer complicated philosophical and theological truths with just a handful of words. 

Let me illustrate this point by sharing the following two sentence paragraph excerpted from his book, Christianity for Modern Pagans, a commentary and explanation of  Blaise Pascal's classic, Pensees:

"Here is a test whether you really love God. Have you done or avoided or given up a single thing today solely because you believed that God wanted you to?"

Chew on this for awhile and then get a copy of his book.
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