Chad Smith's Blog

I have chosen a blog entry from Chad Smith to write about.  As I skimmed through his writings, I particularly took notice of his blog over Bernard’s four degrees of love.  I really liked Chad’s comparison of the journey through the four degrees to running a race.  He emphasized the fact that as you advance in your love, it becomes harder.  This is because you eventually have to keep moving forward from loving yourself – the easy part.  When it comes down to the last degree, we finally realize that we’re actually not really good at loving at all.  We can’t run and make it to those last few degrees.  However, we are carried by the love and strength of Christ.  None of it is in our own power.  “It was the very presence of God's love that was driving me forward into more intimate love with Him.”  I really enjoyed Chad’s understanding of progressing in our intimacy with the Lord.