The following is from Knight of Faith, Volume 1, a collection of Norman Grubb's letter correspondence:
". . . [God] must press and press till He gets us 'through the hoop', right out of interpreting life by what we are, or what happens to us, or how we react; and to exchange it for the fact, that the real you here and now is not [insert your name], but Christ.
"And Christ, God, is love, which means that you are love, and life for you is just loving people, just where you are.
"When you recognize and accept that fact by faith, then you drop wishing you could do or be this or that, and feeling frustrated that you can't accomplish what you long to.
"That is frustration, because self-desires are always frustration, and God plans they should be to force us into the real meaning of life--God loving by us.
". . . However painful it may be, take the place of death in Christ to your plans, your desires, your hopes. Don't reckon the fact that they have not come off [as] frustration; but thank God for His way, which is just this way of apparent frustration!
"Then get the habit of, against all feeling, and though some folk are so difficult to love (I know that, too; and I am just as difficult for them to love me!), saying to yourself, 'God, it is You living this life in me.'
"And God is love, only love; and so you are only love, no matter how much other feelings may temporarily rise up in you and me; and being only love, because He is in you, you live to express that love to those among whom you are. That may not always mean being sentimental; love sometimes is firm, but the basis is that we live to love, because we are love in Him."
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