A Note on the Blog Title, "Light and Heat, Truth and Zeal."

Why title this blog, "Light and Heat, Truth and Zeal"? The inspiration for this title comes from the Desiring God website. Christianity is not just about having truth (knowledge), but zeal (passion), from which the love of Christ compels us (2 Cor. 5:14-15). Knowledge without humility and love is meaningless (1 Cor. 8:1; 13:2). On the other hand, a person can have zeal without having truth – deceived people who have "faith without spiritual light," as Jonathan Edwards would put it. But genuine faith in Christ is having truth accompanied with zeal.

God is glorified not only by His glory's being seen, but by its being rejoiced in. When those that see it delight in it, God is more glorified than if they only see it. His glory is then received by the whole soul, both by the understanding and by the heart. God made the world that he might communicate, and the creature receive, his glory; but that it might [be] received both by the mind and heart. He that testifies his having an idea of God's glory [doesn't] glorify God so much as he that testifies also his approbation of it and his delight in it (Jonathan Edwards, Miscellany #448).

A passion for God, a passion for His people, a passion for His truth and a passion for the glory of Christ. True light must produce true heat.

Light and heat, truth and zeal are what characterize authentic Christianity. As John Piper would say, "Your greatest treasure is what produces the most pleasure in your heart... Because God is most glorified in you when you are most satisfied in him."