God is Not Hard to Please

One of the things I am doing while on sabbatical is reading through my journals which began February 10, 1982.  (I don’t know if I’ll read through all of them, but it is an interesting adventure through the part of my life I was willing to write about.  I’m up to July 1983 so far.)  I’ve noticed a trend toward spiritual navel-gazing in my entries and a dissatisfaction with how I’m doing as a follower of Jesus.  (I’m sure I considered it a holy discontent at the time.  It will interesting to see if this trend continues up to the present.)  The entry for July 14, 1983 includes a quote from A.W. Tozer’s book, The Root of Righteousness.

“[God] is not hard to please, though He may be hard to satisfy.  He expects of us only what He has Himself first supplied.  He is quick to mark every simple effort to please Him, and just as quick to overlook imperfections when He knows we meant to do His will.”

“We please Him most, not by frantically trying to make ourselves good, but by throwing ourselves into His arms with all our imperfections, and believing that He understands everything and loves us still.”

Wouldn’t it be great to live in the reality of “throwing ourselves into His arms with all our imperfections, and believing that He understands everything and loves us still.”  On my best days this is where I live.  On my worst days I don my Pelagian suit and work to earn His love.  Today I think I’ll rest in His arms.