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So much depends on our idea of God!

 

 Yet no idea of Him, however pure and perfect, is adequate to express Him as He really is.

 

 Our idea of God tells us more about ourselves than about Him.

We must learn to realize that the love of God seeks us in every situation, and seeks our good. His inscrutable love seeks our awakening.

 

 True, since this awakening implies a kind of death to our exterior self, we will dread

 His coming in proportion as we are identified with this exterior self and attached to it.