"Is God useful or beautiful?"

While talking about trials and suffering in our lives, Mueller stops teaching for a second and asks:
“Are you able to genuinely say, from your knowledge of God and your relationship with Him, that He is indeed a beautiful Being? If not, let me graciously encourage you to ask God to take you to that point, so that you will fully appreciate His gentleness and kindness, so you will be able to say just how good He is, and so you will know what a delight it is to God’s heart to do good for His children. The closer we come to this point in our inner being, the more willing we are to leave ourselves in His hands and the more satisfied we are with all of His dealings with us.”

we are real people with a real relationship with a real god



"Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life."

-- i think i trust the bible in times of darkness more than anything else because it so accurately sums up the human condition: the beauty and depravity of it all.