“Deep, Personal love for the Lord Jesus Christ”
One of the books that we were recommended to read before we went on our summer project was Hudson Taylor’s Spiritual Secret. I never finished the book but i remember reading the first chapter or two and thinking that this was one of the most inspiring things i’ve ever read. i wanted to underline stuff and started underlining entire passages and just stopped because i realized i liked everything. lol. But there was this one paragraph that stuck out to me and i copied it into my journal on my plane ride to East Asia. I’m not going to comment on it because it speaks for itself.
“This was the secret of their rapid spiritual growth. From the very first they entered the Lord’s own yearning for the lost and dying. They went out not in “social service” but in living for others with a supreme concern for their soul’s salvation. This was not done with any sense of superiority, but it was simply from a deep, personal love for the Lord Jesus Christ.”
-Hudson Taylor’s Spiritual Secret, p11