Your Life is a Good Thing

In order for us to “love the Lord … with all of our heart, soul, mind, and strength,” we must be confident that our “life is certainly a good thing.” “We will never have the easy, unhesitating love of God that makes obedience to Jesus our natural response unless we are absolutely sure that is good for us to be, and to be who we are … that nothing irredeemable has happened to us or can happen to us on our way to our destiny in God’s full world. … It is confidence in the invariably overriding intention of God for our good, with respect to all the evil and suffering that may befall us on life’s journey, that secures us in peace and joy. We must be sure of that intention if we are to be free and able … to simply do what we know to be right.” We “must find the goodness of God and the fellowship of Jesus in who (we) are, or (our) love for the Father and His unique Son cannot become the foundation for a life of abundance/obedience.” Our Lord and Father “desire to dwell with (us) in (our) life and make glorious every aspect of it in the light of the whole that God has planned.” Dallas Willard, The Divine Conspiracy, Pgs. 337 -341