What hideous aspersions are heaped upon the Lord of Life, our Father forever and ever, when in the deep of our hearts we harbor and give audience to the notion that He places demands, burdens, and stipulations upon us that we cannot bear. By so doing we continuously disqualify ourselves from the boundless riches of His love and blessings - which are the ceaseless intention of His grand heart towards us.

How, indeed, would we view a parent who has as his dominant priority to make it too hard for his child to please him. To draw and entice their little ones to strain to please them with that first little step, only to deride them when they fall. What decent mommy would give crayons and paper to their child and then scorn every picture cheerfully lifted to her?

How do we attribute to God motives we find despicable in any reasonable parent? What mere man would swim five miles into the ocean to your rescue only to leave you to gasp and die thirty yards from the shore?

We project our sense of unworthiness, our self-sabotage , upon the only One with the right and the will to lift every cause for separation off of us and onto Himself. Having gone into our den of serpents, absorbed all the deadly venom, and carried us on His back into the open air of life - will He now cast us off?

If such is in our hearts in any form whatsoever, make war with it! Give it no quarter. Stomp it out. Declare it an illegal, forbidden intrusion into the commonwealth of your soul.

Instead, take these words of God who dies for you and declares I am for you to do you good with all my heart and soul, (Jer.32:41) as the working constitution for your soul.

I led them with cords of human kindness,
with ties of love.
To them I was like one who lifts
a little child to the cheek,
How can I give you up, . .
My heart is turned over within Me,
All My compassions are kindled. (from Hosea 11)

He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him over for us all, how will He not also with Him freely give us all things? Rom. 8:32