GOD IS EASY TO LIVE WITH

Psalm 103:13-14 (NASB)
“Just as a father has compassion on his children, So the LORD has compassion on those who fear Him.
For He Himself knows our frame; He is mindful that we are but dust.”

Satan’s first attack on the human race was his sly effort to destroy Eve’s confidence in the kindness of God. Unfortunately, for her and for us, he succeeded too well. From that day, people have had a false conception of God, and it is exactly this that has cut out from under them the
ground of righteousness and driven them to reckless and destructive living. It is most important to our spiritual welfare that we hold in our minds always a right conception of God. If we think of Him as cold and exacting, we will find it difficult, if not impossible to love Him, and our lives will be ordered by slavish fear. On the other hand, if we hold Him to be kind and understanding our whole inner life will mirror that idea.
The truth is that God is the most winsome of all beings. He is all love, and those who trust in Him need never know anything but that love. Certainly He is just and will not condone sin; but through the blood of the everlasting covenant, He is able to act toward us exactly as if we had never sinned. The fellowship of God is delightful beyond words. He communes with His redeemed ones in an easy, uninhibited fellowship that is restful and healing to the soul. He is not sensitive, selfish or temperamental. He is consistently so. He is not hard to please, although he may be hard to satisfy. He’s quick to notice every simple effort to please Him, and just as quick to overlook imperfections when He knows we meant to do His will.
Unfortunately, many Christians cannot get free from their perverted ideas about God, and these ideas poison their hearts and destroy their inward freedom. How good it would be if we could learn that God is easy to live with. He remembers our frame and knows that we are dust. He may sometimes chasten us, it is true, but even this He does with a smile, the proud, tender smile who is bursting with pleasure over an imperfect son or daughter who is coming every day to look more and more like the One whose child he is.
Some of us are religiously jumpy and self-conscious because we know that God sees our every thought and is acquainted with all our ways. We need not be. God is the sum of all patience and the essence of kindly good will. We please Him most, not by frantically trying to make ourselves good, but by throwing ourselves into His arms with all our imperfections, and believing that He understands everything and loves us still.