Awesome quote from Eugene Peterson

I just got my copy of A Long Obedience in the Same Direction, by Eugene Peterson. It happens to be the September selection for the Third Day Book Club. I'm excited to read it as it seems to be the kind of book where you can flip to any page at random and find some inspiration. In fact, that very thing just happened to me. I found this goodness on page 115:

The easiest thing in the world is to be a Christian. What is hard is to be a sinner. Being a Christian is what we were created for. The life of faith has the support of an entire creation an d the resources of a magnificent redemption. The structure of this world was created by God so we can live in it easily and happily as his children. The history we walk in has been repeatedly entered by God, most notably in Jesus Christ, first to show us and then to help us live full of faith and exuberant with purpose. In the course of Christian discipleship we discover that without Christ we are doing it the hard way and that with Christ we are doing it the easy way. It is not Christians who have it hard, but non-Christians.

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Comments

[Melanie]

I'm just starting to read this. I started on my trek to CA, but have been rather out and about since so I'm at a standstill. I should start back up momentarily.

I think it's far to easy for me to be a sinner at this point in time. On the other hand, overall, it makes life much harder and it isn't what we were created to be and are being re-created to become. Now, I just have to remember this.