This is love: not that we love God, but that He loves us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
1 john 4:10
1 john 4:10
Lately I have been reading through a book of Kierkegaard's writings. I wanted to give you a glimpse into what the Lord used to encourage me today.
In repentance, you receive everything from God, even the thanks you give Him, in the same way that parents enjoy the fun of receiving a present from their child when they are really only receiving what they themselves have given. Isn't that how it is, my listener? You were always willing to thank God, but this was some how so inadequate. Then you understood that God is the one who does everything in you and then allows you the childlike pleasure of thinking that your thanks are a gift you give Him. He gives you this joy because you were unafraid of the pains of repentance and of the deep care in which a person becomes happy as a child in God. And you showed this when you were no longer afraid of realizing that this is love: not that we love God, but that God loves us.
In repentance, you receive everything from God, even the thanks you give Him, in the same way that parents enjoy the fun of receiving a present from their child when they are really only receiving what they themselves have given. Isn't that how it is, my listener? You were always willing to thank God, but this was some how so inadequate. Then you understood that God is the one who does everything in you and then allows you the childlike pleasure of thinking that your thanks are a gift you give Him. He gives you this joy because you were unafraid of the pains of repentance and of the deep care in which a person becomes happy as a child in God. And you showed this when you were no longer afraid of realizing that this is love: not that we love God, but that God loves us.
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