Our Primary Love

I have become convinced that the things which keep us from a live relationship to Christ are often not the "bad" things in our lives, but the good things which capture our imaginations and keep them from focusing on Jesus Christ. I think this accounts for a good bit of our frustration as church [people]. We look around in our lives and say, "No stealing, no murder, no adultery! Why, God, am I so miserable and frustrated in my Christian life?" But we have not seen the fact that we have never really offered Him the one thing He requires - our primary love.

- Keith Miller in "The Taste of New Wine"