God never hurries. There are no deadlines against which he must work. Only to know this is to quiet our spirits and relax our nerves.

We understand and acknowledge that the Resurrection has placed a glorious crown upon all of Christ's sufferings!

Man must choose his world

The trouble is that the whole 'accept Christ' attitude is likely to be wrong. It shows Christ applying to us rather than us to him. It makes him stand hat-in-hand awaiting our verdict on him, instead of our kneeling with troubled hearts awaiting his verdict on us. It may even permit us to accept Christ by an impulse of mind or emotions, painlessly, at no loss to our ego and no inconvenience to our usual way of life.

When we become too glib in prayer we are most surely talking to ourselves.

He (God) 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.

Maybe God is calling you to do something extraordinary that isn't on your calendar; something to revive your soul!