We Love God!

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

How sweet all at once it was for me to be rid of those fruitless joys which I had once feared to lose and was now glad to reject! You drove them from me, You who are the true, the sovereign joy. You drove them from me and took their place, You who are sweeter than all pleasure, though not to flesh and blood, You who outshine all light yet are hidden deeper than any secret in our hearts, You who surpass all honor though not in the eyes of men who see all honor in themselves. At last my mind was free from the gnawing anxieties of ambition and gain, from wallowing in filth and scratching the itching sore of lust. I began to talk to you freely, O Lord my God, my Light, my Wealth, and my Salvation.
Augustine

If the Holy Spirit is at work in our lives, if He is convicting us of sin, if He is giving us faith in Jesus Christ, if He is persuading us that the Bible is God’s Word, if He is enabling us to call God Father, if He is making us fruitful in ministry, if He is helping us grow in grace – if the Spirit is doing any of these things at all – then no matter how much we are struggling in the Christian life, we have God’s seal of our eternal salvation.
Philip Graham Ryken

Bible – russian – Синодальный перевод Псалтырь 53

53
Начальнику хора. На струнных орудиях. Учение Давида,
когда пришли Зифеи и сказали Саулу: “не у нас ли скрывается Давид?”
Боже! именем Твоим спаси меня, и силою Твоею суди меня.
Боже! услышь молитву мою, внемли словам уст моих,
ибо чужие восстали на меня, и сильные ищут души моей; они не имеют Бога пред собою.
Вот, Бог помощник мой; Господь подкрепляет душу мою.
Он воздаст за зло врагам моим; истиною Твоею истреби их.
Я усердно принесу Тебе жертву, прославлю имя Твое, Господи, ибо оно благо,
ибо Ты избавил меня от всех бед, и на врагов моих смотрело око мое.