He Loves Me! Learning to Live in the Father's Affection Quotes

“There is no one that God does not love with all that he is. His love reaches beyond every sin and failure, hoping that at some moment they will come to know just how loved they are.”
― Wayne Jacobsen, He Loves Me

“We make a fatal mistake when we try to force Scripture to offer redemption to those who want to go to heaven but who don't want a relationship with the living God. By trying to offer some minimal standard of conduct that will allow them to qualify for salvation while continuing to to pursue their own agendas, we distort the gospel and destroy its power, and we concoct legalistic games to give them a false sense of security.”
― Wayne Jacobsen, He Loves Me! Learning to Live in the Father's Affection

“It is not the fear of losing God’s favor that takes us to the depth of fellowship with him and transforms our lives with his holiness. It is our certainty of knowing his unrelenting love for us, even in the midst of our weakness and failure, that leads us to the fullness of his life.”
― Wayne Jacobsen, He Loves Me!: Learning to Live in the Father's Affection

“The purpose of grace is to grant us access into his presence every day. Grace qualifies us for the relationship we could never earn on our merits.”
― Wayne Jacobsen, He Loves Me! Learning to Live in the Father's Affection

“The key to living a productive Christian life is not waking up every day trying to be loved by God, but waking up in the awareness that you are already his beloved”
― Wayne Jacobsen, He Loves Me! Learning to Live in the Father's Affection

“When Jesus became sin for us he entered into the full shame, darkness and bondage of that sin. It is likely at the moment on the cross when God's wrath was consuming the sin he had become, that he couldn't even see the Father with whom he had shared fellowship through all eternity. Sin blinded him and he felt as if God had forsaken him. But that is the difference between the perception of sin and the reality of God. We too feel abandoned by God at some of our darkest moments. It doesn't mean he's left us, only that we can't see him through the darkness. The resounding truth, however, is that God is always there, never turning his face against those who are his.”
― Wayne Jacobsen, He Loves Me! Learning to Live in the Father's Affection

“For he has already borne in himself what we could never have borne and survived. He endured such hostility against himself because he was committed to our freedom from the power of sin. When I consider just how unfair it might have been for God to have created that tree in Eden that caused so much grief and pain, I only have to look at the cross. Why could he put the tree there? Because he had already determined that he would pay the greatest price for the stumbling block it would be for Adam and Eve. Even in giving us the freedom to trust him or trust ourselves, God already knew that he would suffer the most for that choice. Somehow to him, the glory of fellowship with his created ones outweighs any price he had to pay to experience it. By enduring to the end, sin was fully conquered in him. Its spell over humanity was broken and no longer does anyone have to be consumed by sin itself, nor God's wrath against it. The antidote had not only worked in him, by doing so it had produced in his blood a fountain of life as well. Transfused into any person who desires it, his blood can cleanse us of sin and reunite us with God himself--fulfilling the dream that he had when he first decided to create man and woman and place them in the center of his creation.”
― Wayne Jacobsen, He Loves Me! Learning to Live in the Father's Affection

“No, the cross was not primarily about exacting punishment; it was about prevailing over sin's power. In the Son, God didn't just punish sin, but he served up the antidote that Christ was able to endure until sin itself was destroyed. Now, all who embrace him can live in the effects of the andidote, prevailing over sin through a growing relationship to the Creator of all.”
― Wayne Jacobsen, He Loves Me! Learning to Live in the Father's Affection

“God sees something redemptive even in letting us fail. He seems less concerned about our mistakes than how we respond to them. Do our mistakes lead us away from trusting in our own strength or wisdom and toward seeking what it means to put our trust in him?”
― Wayne Jacobsen, He Loves Me!: Learning to Live in the Father's Affection

“No, the cross was not primarily about exacting punishment; it was about prevailing over sin's power. In the Son of God didn't just punish sin, but he served up the antidote that Christ was able to endure until sin itself was destroyed. Now, all who embrace him can live in the effects of the andidote, prevailing over sin through a growing relationship to the Creator of all.”
― Wayne Jacobsen, He Loves Me! Learning to Live in the Father's Affection

“The mind of a Pharisee thinks truth is more important than love, but Jesus showed us that love is the most important part of truth. Adapted from Don Francisco’s Pharisiatis Test”
― Wayne Jacobsen, He Loves Me!: Learning to Live in the Father's Affection