We Love God!

Name: Apricot Balls
Ingredients: 1 1/2 c Dried apricots; 1/2 c Condensed milk, sweetened; 1 c Coconut

God: "I looked for someone to take a stand for me, and stand in the gap" (Ezekiel 22:30)

I’d like to propose that God’s love is much different and better than unconditional. Unconditional love, as most of us understand it, begins and ends with sympathy and empathy, with blanket acceptance. It accepts you as you are with no expectations. You in turn can take it or leave it. But think about what God’s love for you is like. God does not calmly gaze on you in benign affirmation. God cares too much to be unconditional in His love… Such real love is hard to do. It is so different from “You’re okay in my eyes. I accept you just because you’re you, just as I accept everybody. I won’t judge you or impose my values on you.” Unconditional love feels safe, but the problem is that there is no power to it. When we ascribe unconditional love to God, we substitute a teddy bear for the king of the universe… The word “unconditional” may be an acceptable way to express God’s welcome, but it fails to communicate its purpose: a comprehensive and lifelong rehabilitation, learning “the holiness without which no one will see the Lord.”

David Powlison

A great many Christian books and counselors hail compatibility as the key to a successful and happy marriage. In our view, this reflects the consumer model of our secular culture more than the sacrificial model found in Holy Scripture. Marriage, experts tell us, works only when our needs and desires are met. But no such teaching is found in the Bible. In Scripture, we find that marriage works as a man and a woman stand before God in obedient faith, giving instead of taking, and serving instead of demanding. This is our problem with the emphasis on finding a compatible companion: it turns the whole of the Christian life on its head. Jesus said of Himself, “The Son of Man came not to be served but to serve” (Matt. 20:28), and surely marital love can be built on no other foundation (Richard and Sharon Phillips).

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We Love God!

God: "I looked for someone to take a stand for me, and stand in the gap" (Ezekiel 22:30)

Apricot Balls

January 22, 2023

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Dairy		Cookies, Christmas, M. c.	1	Servings

INGREDIENTS

1 1/2	c	Dried apricots
1/2	c	Condensed milk, sweetened
1	c	Coconut

INSTRUCTIONS

Put apricots through food grinder. Combine apricots with condensed milk and
coconut. Shape into small balls and roll in fruit sugar. Also good rolled
in toasted chopped almonds.
NOTES : Mom always made these and I have made them for 25 years, Really
good but sticky to make.
Posted to MC-Recipe Digest V1 #333
Recipe by: Mom-Carol Floyd@arnprior.com
From: Bob & Carol Floyd <c.floyd@arnprior.com>
Date: Sun, 08 Dec 1996 23:19:06 -0500

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