Feb 19
“There is unspeakable comfort – the sort of comfort that energizes, be it said, not enervates – in knowing that God is constantly taking knowledge of me in love and watching over me for my good. There is tremendous relief in knowing that his love to me is utterly realistic, based at every point on prior knowledge of the worst about me, so that no discovery now can disillusion him about me, in the way I am so often disillusioned about myself, and quench his determination to bless me.
“There is, certainly, great cause for humility in the thought that he sees all the twisted things about me that my fellow humans do not see (and I am glad!), and that he sees more corruption in me than that which I see in myself (which, in all conscience, is enough). There is, however, equally great incentive to worship and love God in the thought that, for some unfathomable reason, he wants me as his friend, and desires to be my friend, and has given his Son to die for me in order to realize that purpose.”
J.I. Packer
Knowing God
Thank you Renee for the quote.
Feb 03
Happy 35th Monthiversary Debi!
I love you!
Dec 22
Lessons learned by Pilgrim and Hopeful due to their carelessness:
Out of the way we went, and then we found
What ‘twas to tread upon forbidden ground:
And let them that come after have a care,
Lest heedlessness make them, as we, to fare,
Lest they for trespassing his prisoners are,
Whose castle’s Doubting and whose name’s Despair.
Dec 05
Decorating our beautiful, fat Canaan Fir tree. Click to view more photos.
Dec 05
A warning about routine praying:
“We must discern whether prayer has not become for us a mechanical routine we are able to carry out to our own satisfaction just because it is mechanical, something like the way we carry out the daily exercise of cleaning our teeth. We don’t think about cleaning our teeth; we simply do it. If we routinize prayer in the same way, we don’t have to think seriously about it at all, but we can go through the day with a nice warm feelin inside telling ourselves and God, “I’ve said my prayers; I’ve done it.”
And an encouragement about routine praying:
“Good routine praying is not mechanical, a mere parroting of prayers, but is similar to the way that wise couples who live busy lives plan the time of day when they are going to talk about how the day has gone and just enjoy being together. Many who pray meaningfully have found it a wonderful help to schedule times with God and to plan in advance how they are going to us that time. It is like scheduling an afternoon where husband and wife will go for a walk together, where nobody will interfere, since there is a lot of stuff that they need to go over together and much they have to do for refreshing their relationship to each other. There is endless benefit to be gained from a regularly scheduled appointment for your time alone with your Lord and from planning ahead some of the ground that you will cover when you and he are alone together.”
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