Does
God treat you better than you deserve? Worse? Pretty fair? What does
this show you about God’s character? (Serendipity Bible 10th
Anniversary Edition, page 1202).
Once
I had a Sunday school teacher whose name was Andy Hines. I have
overheard people asking him on various occasions how he was doing. He
would sometimes answer “better than I deserve.” Since then, I
have used this reply often myself when asked a similar question. It
seems to me flat-out appropriate. Jimmy Carter said regarding his
father “I longed for the kind of relationship in which I would
never have to prove myself or be afraid to tell him I’d done
something wrong” (Through the Year with Jimmy Carter,
p.117). We imperfect creatures long to be loved and blessed and have
permission to be simply honest. We have a heavenly father that provides
exactly that relationship. Additionally I have found this to be true
extensively within my own family and extended relationships. So quite
apart from material blessings, I have been unspeakably blessed with
anchored loving relationships at home and elsewhere.
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