“I can give you good advice and good news: love Christ as well as you can now, and ere long you shall love Him better.
O when you see Him as He is, then I am sure you will love Him indeed! If you want to love Him better now while you are here, I believe I can tell you the secret how this is to be attained: trust Him.
The more you trust Him, the better you will love Him. If you ask farther, ‘How shall I do to trust Him?” I answer, Try Him: the more you make trial of Him, the more your trust in Him will be strengthened.
Venture upon His promises; carry them to Him, and see if He will not be as good as His word. But, alas! Satan and unbelief work the contrary way.
We are unwilling to try Him, and therefore unable to trust Him; and what wonder, then, that our love is faint, for who can love at uncertainties?
If you are in some measure thankful for what you have received, and hungering and thirsting for more, you are in the frame I would wish for myself; and I desire to praise the Lord on your behalf.
Pray for us. We join in love to you.”
–John Newton, The Works of John Newton, Volume 2 (Carlisle, PA: Banner of Truth, 1988), 2: 224-225.
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