Theology is the gradual and painful discovery of God’s incomprehensibility. You can be competent in many things, but you cannot be competent in God.
Henri Nouwen
Powerful.
we were made for grace, and grace was made for us.
He progressed not by always making right decisions but by responding appropriately to wrong ones.
— John Bunyan
FREEDOM
Jesus is the good news that we get everything we need from God so we can give everything we have to others.
All is Grace.
“God loves you unconditionally, as you are and not as you should be, because nobody is as they should be. It is the message of grace… A grace that pays the eager beaver who works all day long the same wages as the grinning drunk who shows up at ten till five… A grace that hikes up the robe and runs breakneck toward the prodigal reeking of sin and wraps him up and decides to throw a party no ifs,ands, or buts… This grace is indiscriminate compassion. It works without asking anything of us… Grace is sufficient even though we huff and puff with all our might to try to find something or someone it cannot cover. Grace is enough… Jesus is enough…”
If truth isn’t undergirded by love, it makes the possessor of that truth obnoxious & the truth repulsive. - Ravi Zacharias
2 Chronicles 25:2
And he did what was right in the eyes of the LORD, yet not with a whole heart.
“Uncomfortable grace”
“There are moments in our lives when we are crying out for grace, not recognizing that we are getting it. We are not getting the grace of relief or the grace of release, because that is not the grace that we really need. No, what we are getting is something we desperately need, the uncomfortable grace of personal growth and change. With the love of a Father, your Lord is prying open your hands so that you will let go of things that have come to rule your heart but will never satisfy you. With the insight of a seasoned teacher, He is driving you to question your own wisdom so that you will find your understanding and rest in His. With the skill of the world’s best counselor, God is showing you the delusions of your control so that you will take comfort in His rule. With the gentleness of a faithful friend He is facing you toward the inadequacies of your own righteousness so that you find your hope in His.”
