Grace Restfulness

I read this last week and can’t stop thinking about it:

• To believe and consent to be loved while unworthy, is the great secret.
• To refuse to make resolutions and vows; for that is to trust in the flesh.
• To expect to be blessed, though realizing more and more lack of worth.
• To rely on God’s chastening (child training) had as a mark of his kindness.
• To hope to be better (hence acceptable) is to fail to see yourself in Christ only.
• To be disappointed with yourself is to have believed in yourself.
• To be discouraged is unbelief–as to God’s purpose and plan of blessing for you.
• To be proud is to be blind! For we have no standing before God, in ourselves. – Miles J. Standford

This is the grace life.

(I don’t normally recommend a book after 30 pages, but The Complete Green Letters by Miles J. Stanford is [Disclaimer: so far] totally amazing!)