[Quix]

Sometime, Dear Heart, perhaps on it's own thread started by you . . .

I'd love to see a dialgoue on

HOW TO TRUST GOD MORE; LOVE GOD MORE.

It's an ongoingly somewhat frustrating thing. I don't manufacture either at all and certainly not much or well.

Doing all the spiritual disciplines--even excessively doesn't do it.

Sigh.

[Alamo-Girl]

Thank you again so very much for your encouragement and for the suggestion!

Seems to me that the Chambers' devotionals and the dialogue which occurs on those threads are very, very helpful in getting and keeping one's priorities straight, i.e. loving God absolutely and as a distant second, loving our neighbor unconditionally (Matt 22).

On the believing Him and trusting Him - as we were discussing on another thread - I assert this is the gift of faith, which goes beyond the grace of faith whereby we believe.

We know we have received the gift of faith when we are able to lay our burdens at the Cross and never pick them up again. As a gift, it is one of those things we have to ask for from the hand of God.

If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children: how much more shall [your] heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him? - Luke 11:13