God uses chronic pain and weakness, along with other afflictions, as his chisel for sculpting our lives.

I am graven on the palms of His hands. I am never out of His mind. All my knowledge of Him depends on His sustained initiative in knowing me. I know Him, because He first knew me, and continues to know me. He knows me as a friend, One who loves me; and there is no moment when His eye is off me, or His attention distracted for me, and no moment, therefore, when His care falters.

If we pursue theological knowledge for its own sake, it's bound to go bad on us. It will make us proud and conceited.

We think of God as too much like what we are. Learn to acknowledge the full majesty of your incomparable God and Savior.

The Life of true holiness is rooted in the soil of awed adoration

A simple Bible reader and sermon hearer who is full of the Holy Spirit will develop a far deeper acquaintance with his God and Savior than a more learned scholar who is content with being theologically correct.

Repentance, as we know, is basically not moaning and remorse, but turning and change.