God Cannot Grow Disillusioned With You

In yesterday’s sermon I shared this quote from chapter 3 of J.I. Packer’s, Knowing God. I shared the quote as I was explaining the doctrine of justification, explaining how we can never lose our justified status and identity before God. The quote affected a lot of people. I’ve been meditating on this quote all summer.

“What matters supremely…is not…the fact that I know God, but the larger fact that he knows me. I am graven on the palms of his hands. I am never out of his mind. All my knowledge of him depends on his sustained initiative in knowing me…There is unspeakable comfort…in knowing that God is constantly taking knowledge of me in love and watching over me for my good. There is tremendous relief in knowing that his love to me is utterly realistic, based at every point on prior knowledge of the worst about me, so that no discovery now can disillusion him about me, in the way I am so often disillusioned about myself, and quench his determination to bless me.”