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Get caught! Life is full of fumbles and stumbles. Fraught with opportunities to make mistakes, occasions to feel guilty, and the drive to "do it yourself." The pressure to be self-sufficient is high, but it isn't the life God offers. The way of the world will direct you to try harder and work smarter so that you can take care of yourself and even make yourself successful. But the way of the cross will point toward the place where you stop striving . . . stop pushing . . . stop every self-initiated effort--so that you can fall into the boundless, liberating, refreshing grace of God! Just imagine being love-driven instead of self-propelled. Imagine abandoning your life to Jesus instead of trying to save yourself. Can you imagine exchanging your fears for that peace that passes understanding? Being relaxed and free instead of stressed-out and anxious? If you can imagine enjoying God instead of trying to repay him, then you can imagine grace. So go ahead! Jump off the cliff of self-sufficiency. Leap out of legalism. Walk off the pier of guilt and condemnation. That's the only way you'll land in the strong arms of the Father who loves you . . . the Father who catches you--every time--in the grip of his grace.… (more)
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Here are some of my favorite quotes taken from this book:
"We know He has a tattoo, and we know what it says. "I have written your name on my hand," He declares (Isa. 49:16)"
"Your parents may have forgotten you, your teachers may have neglected you, your siblings may be ashamed of you; but within reach of your prayers is the maker of the oceans. God!"
"You are saved not because of what you do, but because of what Christ did."
"If your sin were too great for his grace, he never would have saved you in the first place."
"God would prefer we have an occasional limp than a perpetual strut. And, if it takes a thorn in the flesh for Him to make His point, He loves us enough not to pluck it out."
"Content. That's the word. A state of heart in which you would be at peace if God gave you nothing more than He already has."
"Confessed sin becomes the bridge over which we can walk back into the presence of God."
"Mercy understood is holiness desired."
"Holiness demands that sin be punished. Mercy compels that the sinner be loved."
"God's highest dream is not to make us rich, not to make us successful or popular or famous. God's dream is to make us right with Him."
"If a society deletes God from the human equation, what sandbags will they stack against the swelling tide of barbarism and hedonism?"
"Every star is an announcement. Each leaf a reminder. The glaciers are megaphones, the seasons are chapters, the clouds are banners. Nature is a song of many parts but one theme and one verse: God is."
"God loves his children, and he hates what destroys them."
"Many don't understand God's anger because they confuse the wrath of God with the wrath of man. The two have little in common."