This summer, I have been reading through Comforts from the Cross: Celebrating the Gospel One Day at a Time, by Elyse M. Fitzpatrick. Though I’m not finished yet, I wouldn’t hesitate to highly recommend this book.
Here’s a small section from what I read today. It was so beautiful in it’s intensity and challenging to me that I wanted to share it with you.
“Shake off your boredom and apathy. God’s love for you is fierce, self-afflicting, white-hot, life-transforming. The goal of this love is that you may be called God’s daughter, God’s son. All this pain and grief is bent in on one primary goal: your adoption and His eventual praise. Your relationship with the Creator of all there is has been secured by the blood and tears of love’s delight. Your Father is no longer far off, no longer a stranger, no longer a judge. Now He’s your Father.”
“See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are. The reason why the world does not know us is that it did not know him. Beloved, we are God’s children now, and what we will be has not yet appeared; but we know that when he appears we shall be like him, because we shall see him as he is. And everyone who thus hopes in him purifies himself as he is pure.” 1 John 3:1-3, ESV
If you want to know more about Elyse M. Fitzpatrick and her writing, you can start here. Please hear my heart on this though … this isn’t an endorsement, advertising, or a book review. What I’m sharing is completely something that was on my own heart and mind from my morning reading.
What is the Lord teaching you?