As we become soft and lazy in our bodies, we tend to become soft and lazy spiritually.

We might say God's wrath is His justice in action, rendering to everyone his just due, which, because of our sin is always judgment.

Grace stands in direct opposition to any supposed worthiness on our part. To say it another way: Grace and works are mutually exclusive. As Paul said in Romans 11:6, "And if by grace, then it is no longer by works; if it were, grace would no longer be grace." Our relationship with God is based on either works or grace. There is never a works-plus-grace relationship with Him.

God never allows pain without a purpose.

Bitterness arises in our hearts when we do not trust in the sovereign rule of God in our lives

Every day that we're not practicing godliness we're being conformed to the world of ungodliness around us.

Justified" is even better than "just as if I'd never sinned." It is also "just as if I'd always obeyed.