Three Distinctions in the Nature of Faith: Joy in God Crowds With Time

The nature of faith is not indifference or apathy toward Christ, says Piper. Faith merely receives Christ gladly and delights in him but does not deliberately count him greater than all other treasures and joys,. We close with three distinctions that might help those hung up on such preferring of Christ being superlative. The acorn may be small and overlooked by untrained eyes, but when grown it will be an oak, not a weed. To profess Christ as supreme treasure is not to deny the reality of our indwelling sin... Jesus is never safely second.