The Christian life doesn't get easier as one gets older.

The Bible NEVER flatters its heroes. It tells us the truth about each one of them in order that against the background of human breakdown and failure we may magnify the grace of God and recognize that it is the delight of the Spirit of God to work upon the platform of human impossibilities.

Circumstances which we have resented, situations which we have found desperately difficult, have all been the means in the hands of God of driving the nails into the self-life which so easily complains.

What we are is much more important to Him than what we do for Him. We mean far more to God than the work we do.

Let's keep our chins up and our knees down - we're on the victory side.

The condition of an enlightened mind is a surrendered heart.

Return to the battle again, no longer trusting in the false and insufficient human resources which so foolishly we had taken into the battle, but now trusting in the limitless resources of our risen Lord.