Great Quote

So I ran across this quote that I love. "In circumstances and relationships I will gaze at the good and only glance at the bad." This is from Amy Lynn Andrews I don't know if it's original to her or not but I love it. It's what I've tried to articulate to my children... one of the most important gems of wisdom I hope to pass on to them. May I live my life this way.

Greatest Sorrow

"Do you know what the greatest sorrow and burden you can lay on God the Father, the greatest unkindness you can do to him is? It is not to believe that he loves you." Theologian John Owen
I can't get enough of adoption theology right now as we are beginning our adoption journey. I was profoundly affected by C.J.Mahaney's message as he spoke of how much we grieve God when we don't believe that he loves us. He said, we may think it's perhaps our scandalous sin that saddens him most, yet it is not.Why? Because he sent his only son and he crushed him with his full furious righteous wrath against our sin...so that he might redeem us from our sin and liberate us from the penalty of sin and to adopt us as his sons. It's as if God is saying, "Why don't you believe me? What more would you like for me to do? I crushed my son." And when Jesus in the garden of gethsemane, he prayed to God saying, "Is there another way? Take this from me." But God did not answer. There was no alternative. Then on the cross the Father had to endure his son crying out, "My God, why have you forsaken me?" He goes on to explain that not only does God justify and redeem us but he adopts us so he could pour out his affection, and be close to us both here and in heaven for all eternity, and he calls us sons.
"But when the time had fully come, God sent his Son, born of a woman, born under law, to redeem those under law,that we might receive the full rights of sons.Because you are sons, God sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, the Spirit who calls out, 'Abba, Father.' So you are no longer a slave, but a son;and since you are a son, God has made you also an heir." Galatians 4:4-7
Oh that I would believe! What would my life look like if I truly believed how much he loves me? To hear C.J.Mahaney's powerful message click here:
http://www.shepherdsconference.org/media/details/?mediaID=832