Monday, April 11, 2011

Yea I really like this Chapter (6). The whole Child concept is something that I hear a lot but never really understood until reading through this. My favorite part of the chapter was the end:

Here we are to begin, in the patient love of our Father. Think how He knows us apart and by ourselves, in all our peculiarities, and in all our weaknesses and difficulties. The master judges by the result, but our Father judges by the effort. Failure does not always mean fault. He knows how much things cost, and weighs them where others only measure. YOUR FATHER. Think how great store His love sets by the poor beginnings of the little ones, clumsy and unmeaning as they may be to others. All this lies in this blessed relationship and infinitely more. Do not fear to take it all as your own.

It's kind of cool concept that we are not "judged" by our built up sins but by our built up repentance for those sins.

This last quote had me thinking but to be honest I am having trouble understanding it.

From Thoughts on Holiness, by Mark Guy Pearse. What is so beautifully said of the knowledge of God’s Fatherliness as the starting-point of holiness is no less true of prayer.