Left to ourselves we tend immediately to reduce God to manageable terms.

The cross where Jesus died became also the cross where His apostle died. The loss, the rejection, the shame, belong both to Christ and to all who in very truth are His. the cross that saves them also slays them, and anything short of this is a pseudo-faith and not true faith at all.

Wherever faith has eyes to see, there is a smiling presence of the Son of God.

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.

Faith creates nothing; it simply reckons upon that which is already there.

Nothing should so occupy the mind of the Christian than discovering God each day.

Walking in humility isn't focusing on what we are NOT; rather, it's declaring what God is.