To mend our own relationship with God, regaining God's favor after having once lost it, is beyond the power of any one of us. And one must see and bow to this before one can share the biblical faith in God's grace.

For what higher, more exalted, and more compelling goal can there be than to know God?

We are to order our lives by the light of His Law, not by our guesses about His plan.

We must seek, in studying God, to be led to God.

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

How can we turn our knowledge about God into knowledge of God? The rule for doing this is simple but demanding. It is that we turn each Truth that we learn about God into matter for meditation before God, leading to prayer and praise to God.

Confidence that one's impressions are God-given is no guarantee that this is really so, even when they persist and grow stronger through long seasons of prayer. Bible-based wisdom must judge them.