A TEST OF LOVE

Saint Augustine once preached a sermon in which he proposed a kind of self-test to see if we truly love God.

Suppose God proposed to you a deal and said,"I will give you anything you want. You can possess the whole world. Nothing will be impossible for you...... Nothing will be a sin, nothing forbidden. You will never die, never have pain, never have anything you do not want and always have anything you do want........ except for just one thing:you will never see my face."

Augustine closed with a question:

Did a chill rise in your hearts, when you heard the words, "you will never see my face"? That chill is the most precious thing in you; that is the pure love of God."

Mark 8:36 'What good is it for a man to gain the whole world, yet forfeit his soul?'