prone to wander

She’s known sadness, and it has made her kind.

Imagine yourself as a living house. God comes in to rebuild that house. At first, perhaps, you can understand what He is doing. He is getting the drains right and stopping the leaks in the roof and so on; you knew that those jobs needed doing and so you are not surprised. But presently He starts knocking the house about in a way that hurts abominably and does not seem to make any sense. What on earth is He up to? The explanation is that He is building quite a different house from the one you thought of - throwing out a new wing here, putting on an extra floor there, running up towers, making courtyards. You thought you were being made into a decent little cottage: but He is building a palace. He intends to come and live in it Himself.

No one lives out an exciting calling without just plunging forward at some point, full of fear and uncertainty.

Nothing teaches us about the preciousness of the Creator as much as when we learn the emptiness of everything else.

Pursuing God is about realizing more and more that He has been pursuing you all along, and slowly waking to this reality. It’s knowing that every ounce of effort you’ve made towards Him has been His wooing grace, beckoning you ever closer.

Purge my heart from every unhealthy desire. Every tree that has not been planted by my Father be uprooted in the name of Jesus. Give me a pure heart with desires that honor You. Protect me from myself, my flesh and anything that is not of You.

Each time you fall He’ll pick you up. He knows your own efforts are never going to bring you anywhere near perfection.