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

A little knowledge OF God is worth more than a great deal of knowledge ABOUT him.

God's wisdom is not, and never was, pledged to keep a fallen world happy, or to make ungodliness comfortable.

His purpose is simply to draw us closer to Himself in conscious communion with Him.

Wait on the Lord" is a constant refrain in the Psalms, and it is a necessary word, for God often keeps us waiting. He is not in such a hurry as we are, and it is not his way to give more light on the future than we need for action in the present, or to guide us more than one step at a time. When in doubt, do nothing, but continue to wait on God. When action is needed, light will come.

God's overriding goal is to glorify Himself.

Christ had no interest in gathering vast crowds of professed adherents who would melt away as soon as they found out what following Him actually demanded of them. In our own presentation of Christ's gospel, therefore, we need to lay a similar stress on the cost of following Christ and make sinners face it soberly before we urge them to respond to the message of free forgiveness. In common honesty, we must not conceal the fact that free forgiveness in one sense will cost everything.