when you don’t read or pray, God is not like a disappointed schoolteacher, scolding you for failing to complete your assignment. Rather, God is your patient and loving Father. He desires communion with his child so much that Owen says nothing grieves God more than our “hard thoughts” about him, that is, our unwillingness to believe that God really is this tender and kind toward us. Why does nothing grieve God more? Because he knows “how unwilling is a child to come into the presence of an angry father.”
