If you find in your walk with Christ that He seems to gradually draw away from you, requiring more faith and less feeling, know that He is simply forcing you to grow into maturity.
Each follower of Christ must develop his own convictions and perspective. The convictions and perspective of others will not carry you through your time of testing.
Imagine living ten thousand years without sinning, making one mistake, and spending eternity in hell.
Something worse than this pain, however, is for God to allow you the fulfillment of your temporal hope only to arrive in eternity disappointed.
Gratitude produces humility. The fuller the vessel, the deeper it sinks in the water. Grace cures pride.
He chose humble instruments so that all could know that the power of the gospel could not have been produced by our own ability.
Unity and union are not the same. You can unite in marriage, and thus be in union with one another, and not have unity.
Circumstances will enter your life calling into question either the validity of your commitment to Christ or the veracity of His promises.
“Whether we be afflicted, it is for your good, or whether we be comforted it is for your good.”
If the Almighty wants you in a position of leadership, He can find you, just as He found Saul “hid among the stuff.”
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