I have recently began reading A Woman After God's Own Heart" by Elizabeth George. So far I have enjoyed what I've read and look forward to finishing this book. Her words of welcome are encouraging and I wanted to share a quote she used. Let me preface this quote by saying in her welcoming remarks, George starts out by saying that it's God's work in us that transforms us into being a woman after God's own heart but also discipline on our part. She quotes Richard Foster whom says that this path is "the path of disciplined Grace." Think on this quote and let it be an encouragement to you.
"It is discipline, because there is work for us to do. It is Grace, because the life of God which we enter into is a gift which we can never earn. . . Discipline in and of itself does not make us righteous; it merely places us before God. . . The transformation. . . is God's work." (Richard Foster, "And We Can Live By It: Discipline," Decision Magazine, September 1982, p.11)
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