Jerry Bridges

We tend to subjectively feel God’s displeasure more than we do his loving Father we care. This means that in order to experience the reality and full meaning of our adoption, we must also keep in mind our identity in Christ. This is how we counteract our own tendency to focus on our performance as a measure of God’s acceptance… I am an adopted son of God. I’m a child of the King. I have the privilege in this life of an intimate father-child relationship with Him. And I look forward with expect and hope to an eternal inheritance that is far more glorious than anything I could imagine.