"God is the perfect Father. This means, among other things, that He is ridiculously easy to please, and impossibly difficult to satisfy." -- Douglas Wilson, Flesh of My Flesh
God is easy to please and impossible to satisfy.
God is not withholding. He does not keep back anything good from those whom love Him. He accepts our efforts because of Who He is, not how good they are. He is easy to please. He doesn't just love us... He likes us. And not through gritted teeth, but with mirth and joy.
God is never done giving to us. He is never satisfied with our growth, not because He is hard to please, we established the ease with which He is pleased already, but because He is so pleased to see us grow. He desires to give us more. He is never done giving. He is never tired of giving to us. He will never conclude, "Yeah, that's Christ-like enough." No, He will not stop until we are conformed completely to the image of His Son.
God is easy to please and impossible to satisfy.
And that... is Good News!
May we be like Him with respect to our children and our disciples. May we be easy to please, receiving and encouraging even the slightest moves made by faith. But may we never settle for slight moves. May we spur our beloveds on to greater and greater moves of more and more faithfulness. May we not fall short of urging them not to fall short.
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