Old Lutheran Quote of the Day

If you want to learn to know God's heart and will towards you, look at Christ in the manger, in the circle of sinners that surrounds Him, in Gethsemane, and on the cross. There you can read God's heart as in an open book. For whoever sees Christ also sees God the Father. As you find nothing with Christ but kindness, love, and grace, so you can be certain that you will find all of this with the Father. Christ calls sinners to Himself; and He does not condemn them; instead, He forgives them all their sins. And this is also what God does. He, too, wants to have mercy on you. Christ desires to take you up into His heavenly Kingdom, and so does the Father. To know the disposition of God's heart, you need only to look at how Christ is disposed toward you. -- C.F.W. Walther, *God Grant It!* p. 879