Taylors post:
reading through the 6th chapter of the book, a couple things really stuck out to me.
The first was the idea of being like a child. You know in the Word it talks about entering the kingdom like a child, but I also like where he took this concept.
"And he will find that Fatherlike giving is the Divine response to childlike living." I love this line. Not only because it rhymes, but it makes it sound like life is so simplified in the fact that living like a child is all that it takes...
In the bottom of chapter 6, after the prayer in the NOTES section, he states these sentences that somewhat relate to this:
"Here is the starting-point of holiness, in the love and patience and pity of our heavenly Father. We have not to learn to be holy as a hard lesson at school, that we may make God think well of us; we are to learn it at home with the Father to help us. God loves you not because you are clever not because you are good, but because He is your Father. The Cross of Christ does not make God love us; it is the outcome and measure of His love to us. He loves all His children, the clumsiest, the dullest, the worst of His children. His love lies at the back of everything, and we must get upon that as the solid foundation of our religious life, not growing up into that, but growing up out if it. We must begin there or our beginning will come to nothing."
- I love the "growing up out of it" part
What do you guys think about this paragraph?
dang this ch was awesome...the Fathers heart for me is so foundational for my walk...for my confidence...for my point of beginning...I loved how murray put it this way:
ReplyDelete"The child who only wants to know the love of the father when he has something to ask, will be disappointed. But he who lets God be Father always and in everything, who would fain live his whole life in the Father’s presence and love, who allows God in all the greatness of His love to be a Father to him, oh! he will experience most gloriously that a life in God’s infinite Fatherliness and continual answers to prayer are inseparable."
mmm I want to live my life in that place... I know that I dont do that, but Im confident that the Lord is teaching me to grow in my trust of him as my Father...
love you fellas!
JErry