God loves us by doing everything he has to do at great cost to himself.

To remove every obstacle from inside of us

and inside of him to bring us to the place where we enjoy him which makes much of him.

What does God's love for us look like?

That's the question John Piper answers in this episode of Light and Truth.

This message was originally given in Phoenix, Arizona at the Desireing God 2006 Regional Conference.

I want to understand the nature of the love of God for me.

Because here I am going around the country and writing stuff,

arguing that God in all that he does exalts himself for your enjoyment.

And there are folks who don't like that picture of God.

It feels like he's a megalomaniac.

So I have asked myself what is it to be loved? What does it mean biblically to be loved? And I think right at this point, we hit our culture about as broadside as we can hit it.

Because what the culture means by being loved, at least at the surface level is the opposite of what

the Bible means by being loved.

So let me tell you what I think those two are and then take you to

John chapter 11.

The world, I think, by and large feels love.

Now when I say the world, I mean unregenerate human beings.

They have not been born again. They are natural.

They think without God at the center. Their affections have not been awakened. They are dead spiritually according to Ephesians 2 5 5, and being dead spiritually, the spiritual things of God are foolishness

to them and they have no categories for handling much biblical truth, especially this one. So for the unregenerate American or any other human being,

to be loved is to be made much of.

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