If you treated your salvation no longer as a gift, but as a purchase, God would no longer be the free benefactor.
You can’t give anything to God or do anything for God that he hasn’t first given to you and done for you.
Fear not. Your adversaries can do no more than God grants. And he will grant you the faith you need. Those are gospel promises.
Nothing will separate us from the love of Christ because Christ is alive and is still loving us right now.
God loves us so much that he will not allow our preciousness to become our god.
In the old covenant, the gracious enabling power to obey God was not poured out as fully as it is since Jesus.
If you feel vulnerable, you can say to God, “Lord, help me. I’m not even sure how to pray.” Trust that he will respond and will help you.
This is one of the beauties of the biblical doctrines of grace: their worst devastations prepare us for their greatest delights.
God is never forced into a situation where he must do something in which he cannot rejoice.
The worth and beauty of the Son come not just from his majesty, nor just from his meekness, but from the way these mingle in perfect proportion.
By all means work. But always look to the Lord for the decisive, supernatural work needed to fulfill his purposes.
Never grow weary of exploring and exulting in the inexhaustible privilege of being “in Christ Jesus.”
The Father’s infinite pleasure in his own perfections is the fountain of our everlasting joy and forgiveness.
The extent of Christ’s reign reaches to the smallest and biggest enemy of his glory in your life, and in this universe. It will be defeated.
God rejoices in the works of creation because they point us beyond themselves to God himself.
The sweetest experience of God’s love is conditional on our transformation into the kind of people whose emotions and choices and actions please God.
Day and night are saying one thing: God is glorious! Turn away from the creation as your supreme satisfaction, and delight yourself in the Lord of glory.
God is love precisely because he relentlessly pursues the praises of his name in the hearts of his people.
If God loves us enough to make our joy full, he must not only give us himself; he must also win from us the praise of our hearts.
God’s pursuit of praise from us and our pursuit of pleasure in him are the same pursuit.
Jesaiah Kim
God is infinitely energetic with absolutely unbounded and unending enthusiasm for the fulfilment of his delight.
Paulo Francisco
I love this man indeed. God bless this amazing work.
ace4mma
Everything I need daily to as a reminder that God is in control. Love John Pipers devotionals.
Coe Lamoureux
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Samuel Moses A
Excellent thought. Removes all anxiety