Each day presents a new opportunity to experience God's presence.

The author squares man's depravity with still being made in the image of God with this word picture. A vase that has held beautiful roses though now broken, will nevertheless hold something of the fragrance it once contained.

The meek man is not a human mouse afflicted with a sense of his own inferiority. He has accepted God's estimate of his own life: In himself, nothing; In God, everything. He knows well that the world will never see him as God sees him and he has stopped caring.

Man must choose his world

The superior Christian lets God strip him of everything that might serve as a false refuge, a secondary trust.

Problems patiently endured will work for our spiritual perfecting.

You are a mirror of the Almighty...this is the reason you were created...your purpose.