Enjoying God Quotes

“As I’ve reflected on what it means to enjoy God, I think this is the number one reason I don’t enjoy God more than I do: not enough repentance. The problem is not that I sin. Sin itself doesn’t keep us from God because God is gracious and he has provided a means of reconciliation through the work of his Son. So sin itself doesn’t prevent us enjoying God. The problem is either: I keep my distance from God because I’m choosing sin over God, or I keep my distance from God because I feel ashamed.”
― Tim Chester, Enjoying God: Experience the power and love of God in everyday

“Father” is not a metaphor. We’re not saying God is a bit like human fathers. Throughout all eternity God is Father because eternally he has a Son. God is the pattern for true fatherhood. This is really important for some people. Your experience of your human father may be very mixed: he may have been distant, harsh or even abusive—or simply not there. But that’s not what God is like. God is the loving Father you’ve always wished you had.”
― Tim Chester, Enjoying God: Experience the power and love of God in everyday

“There are so many blessings that flow from being a Christian, but the real blessing is Christ. Christ is himself his own reward.”
― Tim Chester, Enjoying God: Experience the power and love of God in everyday

“God offers Moses everything without God, but Moses doesn’t want everything. He wants God. And so he declines the offer. The blessings of the promised land are secondary to the true blessing which is God himself.”
― Tim Chester, Enjoying God: Experience the power and love of God in everyday

“The Puritan Richard Sibbes says, “What a comfort is this, that seeing God’s love rests on Christ, as well pleased in him, we may gather that he is as well pleased with us, if we be in Christ!”
― Tim Chester, Enjoying God: Experience the power and love of God in everyday

“relationship with God and find joy in him, the more our evangelism will be enthusiastic and infectious. It will stop being an awkward exercise imposed on conversation as an act of duty. Instead, as an overflow of full hearts, we will speak enthusiastically of the One we love. Instead of being like nearly empty toothpaste tubes, we’ll become champagne bottles, waiting to explode, fizzing and bubbling over.”
― Tim Chester, Enjoying God: Experience the power and love of God in everyday

“John Calvin says, “No one gives himself freely and willingly to God’s service unless, having tasted his fatherly love, he is drawn to love and worship him in return.”
― Tim Chester, Enjoying God: Experience the power and love of God in everyday

“By delaying repentance, we step away from the love and life of God.”
― Tim Chester, Enjoying God: Experience the power and love of God in everyday

“How will we live if we think we need to earn God’s approval? How will we live if we are confident we have God’s approval in Christ?”
― Tim Chester, Enjoying God: Experience the power and love of God in everyday

“All the things we enjoy, says John Calvin, are “ladders by which we may ascend nearer to God”. “God,” he says, “by his benefits, gently attracts us to himself, giving us a taste of his fatherly sweetness”. But Calvin also warns, “There is nothing into which we more easily fall than into a forgetfulness of him, especially when we enjoy peace and comfort”.”
― Tim Chester, Enjoying God: Experience the power and love of God in everyday

“Owen said, “You can no way more trouble or burden the Father, than by your unkindness in not believing in his love”.”
― Tim Chester, Enjoying God: Experience the power and love of God in everyday

“Although believers are now pilgrims on earth,” says Calvin, “yet by their confidence they surmount the heavens, so that they cherish their future inheritance in their bosoms with tranquillity.”[44] What frees us from the vain pursuit of earthly treasure is the hope of treasure in heaven (Matthew 6 v 19-20; 1 Timothy 6 v 17-19).”
― Tim Chester, Enjoying God: Experience the power and love of God in everyday

“There is nothing that God expects you to do that you cannot do. The sin that defeats you need not defeat you. The fears that consume you need not consume you. The people who terrify you need not terrify you. You have the Spirit of life within you empowering you to know God and follow Christ.”
― Tim Chester, Enjoying God: Experience the power and love of God in everyday

“Seeing God as our Father radically changes your attitude to religious duties. It turns religion into relationship.”
― Tim Chester, Enjoying God: Experience the power and love of God in everyday

“This is how editor R. J. K. Law restates it: “The greatest sorrow and burden you can lay on the Father, the greatest unkindness you can do to him, is not to believe that he loves you.”
― Tim Chester, Enjoying God: Experience the power and love of God in everyday

“Sacrifice becomes an opportunity to express our delight in God. What we give up seems small in comparison to what we’re gaining.”
― Tim Chester, Enjoying God: Experience the power and love of God in everyday

“Our actions don’t make us Christians or make us more of a Christian or keep us as Christians—for our union with God is all his work. Our actions do make a difference to our enjoyment of God—for our communion with God (our enjoyment of our union with God) involves a two-way relationship.”
― Tim Chester, Enjoying God: Experience the power and love of God in everyday