What or whom do you love?

Do you love the comfort zone of the Christian church in a world of chaos?

Do you love the beautiful order and comprehensive of Biblical ideas and doctrine?

Or do you love Jesus?

It's quite clear that there are plenty of influential people in the orthodox world of Christianity today who love ideas, at least as much if not more than they love Jesus himself. 

Or at least, if they don't, they have a strange way of going about things in their ministries.

What, then, about I or you?

If our initial reaction is to deny that there's a real difference between these things, then Jesus reminds us otherwise; this problem was there in the first century:

“2 I know your works, your labour, your patience, and that you cannot bear those who are evil. And you have tested those who say they are apostles and are not, and have found them liars; 3 and you have persevered and have patience, and have laboured for My name’s sake and have not become weary. 4 Nevertheless I have this against you, that you have left your first love. 5 Remember therefore from where you have fallen; repent and do the first works, or else I will come to you quickly and remove your lampstand from its place—unless you repent." (Revelation 2:2-5)

The blessings of the Christian life, and the beauty of Christian truths are wonderful things. They are, though, simply rays coming from the sun. Jesus himself is infinitely above, and all other true beauty is coming to us from him. So let's admire God revealed to us in Christ first, and then admire what comes from him as part of our admiring of him. Let's love them because they lead us to him. Let's love them because they lead others to him too.