"Trying to be happy without a sense of God's presence is like trying to have a bright day without the sun."
"Prayer will become effective when we stop using it as a substitute for obedience."
"If you have the smile of God, what does it matter if you have the frown of men?"-Leonard Ravenhill
"Jesus Christ knows the worst about you. Nonetheless, He is the one who loves you the most."
(Note to self: Look up post about God is easy to live with)
God Is Easy To Live With
The fellowship of God is delightful beyond all telling. He communes with His redeemed ones in an easy, uninhibited fellowship that is restful and healing to the soul. He is not sensitive or selfish nor temperamental. What He is today we shall find Him tomorrow and the next day and the next year. He is not hard to please, though He may be hard to satisfy. He expects of us only what He Himself first supplied...
How good would it be if we could learn that God is easy to live with. He remembers our frame and knows that we are dust. He may sometimes chasten us, it is true, but even this He does with a smile, the proud, tender smile of a Father who is bursting with pleasure over an imperfect but promising son who is coming every day to look more and more like the One whose child he is.
We please Him most, not by frantically trying to make ourselves good, but by throwing ourselves into His arms with all our imperfections, and believing that He understands everything and loves us still.
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