All pain we experience is intended to move us closer to the goal of being holy as He is holy.

The opposite of retaliation is to entrust ourselves to God, who judges justly.

Worship is the specific act of ascribing to God the glory, majesty, honor, and worthiness which are His.

It is our response to our circumstances rather than the degree of difficulty that determines whether or not we are discontent

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

God’s plan and His ways of working out His plan are frequently beyond our ability to fathom and understand. We must learn to trust when we don’t understand.

Our first problem is that our attitude towards sin is more self-centred than God-centred. We are more concerned about our own "Victory" over sin than we are about the fact that our sin grieve the heart of God. We cannot tolerate failure in our struggle with sin chiefly because we are success oriented, not because we know it is offensive to God.