God never hurries. There are no deadlines against which he must work. Only to know this is to quiet our spirits and relax our nerves.

The natural man must know in order to believe; The spiritual man must believe in order to know

And what kind of habitation pleases God? What must our natures be like before he can feel at home within us? He asks nothing but a pure heart and a single mind. He asks no rich paneling, no rugs from the Orient, no art treasures from afar. He desires but sincerity, transparency, humility, and love. He will see to the rest.

There is no limit to what God can do through us if we are a yielded and purified people.

The KEY to disciplining ourselves in the area of obedience is always keeping in mind to whom we are being obedient.

We are often hindered from giving up our treasures to the Lord out of fear for their safety; this is especially true when those treasures are loved relatives and friends. But we need have no such fears. Our Lord came not to destroy but to save. Everything is safe which we commit to Him, and nothing is really safe which is not so committed.

Religious externals may have meaning for the God-inhabited soul; for any others they are not only useless but may actually become snares, deceiving them into a false and perilous sense of security.