The Gracious Generosity Of God

“It is certain that God blesses believers precisely and invariably by blessing to them something of his truth and that misbelief as such is in its own nature spiritually barren and destructive.


Yet anyone who deals with souls will again and again be amazed at the gracious generosity with which God blesses to needy ones what looks to us like a very tiny needle of truth hidden amid whole haystacks of mental error.

As I have said, countless sinners truly experience the saving grace of Jesus Christ and the transforming power of the Holy Spirit while their notions about both are erratic and largely incorrect. (Where indeed, would any of us be if God's blessings had been with-held till our notions were right? Every Christian without exception experiences far more in the way of mercy and help than the quality of his notions warrants.)”

—J. I. Packer, Keep in Step with the Spirit: Finding Fullness in Our Walk with God 2d ed. (Grand Rapids: Baker, 2005), 21-22.