‘In the ancient world, adoption was a practice ordinarily confined to the childless well-to-do. Its subjects, as we said earlier, were not normally infants, as today, but young adults who had shown themselves fit and able to carry on a family name in a worthy way. In this case, however, God adopts us out of free love, not because our character and record show us worthy to bear his name, but despite the fact that they show the very opposite. We are not fit for a place in God’s family; the idea of his loving and exalting us sinners as he loves and has exalted the Lord Jesus sounds ludicrous and wild—yet that, and nothing less than that, is what our adoption means.’
–JI Packer, Knowing God
6) Knowing God by JI Packer.
This has recently been my bedtime read on the kindle. I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve read it over the years, but each time it’s helped me draw that bit closer to God & stoked my passion to know him better. I will reread this once again soon! pic.twitter.com/V55IX9Ese4— Jack Griffiths (@JackLGriffiths) March 21, 2023