Sunday, October 9, 2011

An Advice From JI Packer

Theologian JI Packer gives this advice in his book, Knowing God :

"Do I as a Christian, understand myself?
               Do I know my know my own real identity?
                                                               My own real destiny?

I am a child of God.
    God is my father;
         heaven is my home;
               every day is one day nearer.
                        My Savior is my brother too.

Say it over and over to yourself first thing in the morning, last thing at night, as you wait for the bus, any time when your mind is free, and ask that you may be enabled to live as one who knows it is all utterly and completey true.

For this is the Christian's secret of  - a happy life? - yes, certainly, but we have something both higher and profounder to say.

This is the Christian's secret of a Christian life, and of a God-honoring life and these are the aspects of the situation that really matter.

May this secret become fully yours, and fully mine.

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