Piper on “A new way of looking at love” or “How love has always been but now I’m just seeing it” or “I just don’t get it”
This quote has been bothering me for over a month. I suppose the main reason is that as I look back on relationships that have gone sour, I’m trying to figure out just what love looks like. Both in a man-woman and Christ-to man sense.
“The particular love that Christ has for his bride is something more wonderful than the general love he has for his enemies. It is a covenant love. It pursues and overtakes and subdues and forgives and transforms and overcomes every resistance in the beloved.”
John Piper, discussing John Owen’s book The Death of Death in the Death of Christ in Piper’s book “Contending For Our All”