The following is from Knight of Faith, Volume II, a collection of Norman Grubb's personal correspondence. This is what he replied to one writer who corresponded with him:
"I find the most help, not in centering on how I can keep my mind stayed on Him, or feeling condemned because, as you say, 'the trouble is within my own heart.'
"No, I think my concentration is to be on the fact that He has joined Himself to me forever, one Spirit (I Cor. 6.17) and this remains a fact whether my mind is on Him or not.
"So I'm not depending on whether I keep my mind stayed on Him, but on the fact that His mind is forever stayed on me, whether I remember Him or not.
"Read I John 3.19-21. John specifically says we are not to assess our relationship with Him on what we feel about it in our own hearts. Our hearts vary in their feelings and, He says whether our hearts condemn us or not, God is greater and He doesn't change. Read also II Tim. 2.13."
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