Sunday, September 19

Beautiful reverence

It is not reverent to erect barriers of icy formality [with God] which Jesus died to tear down. Doing so is pious rebellion. There is no more beautiful reverence in the sight of God than the simple heartcry, ‘Abba! Father!’

— Raymond Ortlund, Jr.
Supernatural Living for Natural People
(Ross-shire, UK: Christian Focus, 2010), 85