If you fail, Gods love does not. That love can be grieved; that love can never go away. It is that love, ultimately, that is our chief weapon against temptation. To know that I am loved, loved deeply, through and through, gives me the security to reject the ways of pride and fear; to choose the way of self-denial which is also the way of self-affirmation, and to reject the way of self-hatred which leads not to holiness but despair. To know this love, and to act out of answering this love, is one of the central features of following Jesus. And, as we choose, we will find, like Jesus in the wilderness, that, to our surprise, angels may come and minister to us. - N.T. Wright
Posted on: Wed, 21 Aug 2013 11:10:14 +0000
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