God never allows pain without a purpose.

Your worst days are never so bad that you are beyond the reach of God's grace. And your best days are never so good that you are beyond the need of God's grace.Pharisee-type believers unconsciously think they have earned God's blessing through their behavior. Guilt-laden believers are quite sure they have forfeited God's blessing through their lack of discipline or their disobedience. Both have forgotten the meaning of grace because they have moved away from the gospel and have slipped into a performance relationship with God.

The person who is living by grace sees this vast contrast between his own sins against God and the offenses of others against him. He forgives others because he himself has been so graciously forgiven. He realizes that, by receiving God’s forgiveness through Christ, he has forfeited the right to be offended when others hurt him.

The cure for the sin of envy and jealousy is to find our contentment in God

We obey God's Law, not to be loved but because we are loved in Christ.

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

God's sovereignty does not negate our responsibility to pray, but rather makes it possible for us to pray with confidence.