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Do you love Jesus more than your spouse? Your reputation? Your kids? Your health? Your job? Your money? As Christians, we're called to love Jesus more than anyone or anything else. But do we really do this? Emphasizing that God's love for us is the source of our love for him, Phil Ryken challenges us to take Jesus's words seriously and think carefully about where our affections truly lie.

of loving him with all we have? The simplest and maybe the most important way is to use our minds to meditate on the words that Jesus speaks to us in Holy Scripture. In his book Discovering Lectio Divina, Jim Wilhoit describes the devotional reading of Scripture as “the reading of a lover”—“the relaxed waiting that is as attentive to the relationship as it is to the text.”3 If we ever wonder why we do not seem to love Jesus very much—at least not as much as we should—maybe this is one of the reasons