Me: You are the apple of my eye!

Prodigal: Well thank you!

Me: I also have a story with an apple.

This is from the book All of Grace by C.H. Spurgeon

The child’s hand dos not make the apple nor improve the apple nor deserve the apple; it only takes it. And faith is chosen by God to be the receiver of salvation because it does not pretend to create salvation or to help in it, but is content to receive it humbly. “Faith is the tongue that begs pardon, the hand that receives it, and the eye that sees it; but it is not the price that buys it.” Faith never makes itself its own plea. It rests all its arguments on the blood of Christ. It becomes a good servant to bring the riches of the Lord Jesus to the soul because it acknowledges from where it drew them and admits that grace alone entrusted it with them.

It is of faith, that it might be by grace. Romans 4:16

Jennifer Van Allen

www.theprodigalpig.com

www.faithincounseling.org