Have you been holding back from a risky, costly course to which you know in your heart God has called you? Hold back no longer. Your God is faithful to you, and adequate for you. You will never need more than He can supply, and what He supplies, both materially and spiritually, will always be enough for the present.
J. I. PackerGod uses chronic pain and weakness, along with other afflictions, as his chisel for sculpting our lives.
J. I. PackerI must ask the Lord to direct the Holy Spirit within me to drain the life out of sin and in prayer.
J. I. PackerThe incarnation is in itself an unfathomable mystery, but it makes sense of everything else that the New Testament contains.
J. I. PackerGod was happy without humans before they were made; he would have continued happy had he simply destroyed them after they had sinned; but as it is he has set his love upon particular sinners, and this means that, by his own free voluntary choice, he will not know perfect and unmixed happiness again till he has brought every one of them to heaven. He has in effect resolved that henceforth for all eternity his happiness shall be conditional upon ours.
J. I. Packer