The task of the teacher of the Bible is to open up what’s closed, to make plain what is obscure, to unravel what is knotted and to unfold what is tightly packed.

We may be confident in this: that in the pain of our suffering is the presence of a faithful God.

Father, we long for the clarity of Your truth to dawn upon our minds and for the immensity of Your love to grip our hearts.

Even the most casual events are connected to God's purpose for His people from all eternity.

When grace begins to rule, then our preoccupation with ourselves begins to leave.

A Christian way of thinking is not just thinking Christian thoughts, singing Christian songs, reading Christian books, going to Christian schools; it is learning to think about the whole spectrum of life from the perspective of a mind that has been trained in truth.

It's all about God. May He forgive us for every time we start to think it's actually all about us.