GOD IS THE MOST WINSOME OF ALL BEINGS
“…Truly our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son, Jesus Christ” (1 JOHN 1:3).
Nothing twists and deforms the human soul more than a low or unworthy conception of God and His kindness.

To a Pharisee in the days of Christ, the service of God was a bondage which he did not love but from which he could not escape without a loss too great to bear.

The God of the Pharisees was not a God easy to live with, so his religion became grim and hard and loveless. It had to be so, for our notion of God must always determine the quality of our religion.

Much Christianity since the days of Christ’s flesh has also been grim and severe. And the cause has been the same—an unworthy or an inadequate view of God.

Instinctively we try to be like our God, and if He is conceived to be stern and exacting, so will we ourselves be.

From a failure properly to understand God comes a world of unhappiness among good Christians even today. The Christian life is thought to be a glum, unrelieved cross-carrying under the eye of a stern Father who expects much and excuses nothing—a God austere, peevish, highly temperamental and extremely hard to please!

The kind of life which springs out of such libelous notions must of necessity be but a parody on the true life in Christ.

The truth is that God is the most winsome of all beings and His service one of unspeakable pleasure. Those who trust Him have found His mercy always in triumph over justice, through the blood of the everlasting covenant!

A. W. Tozer