We're more concerned about our own "victory" over sin than we are about the fact that our sins grieve God's heart.

God will never allow any action against you that is not in accord with His will for you. And His will is always directed to our good.

We must pray constantly for His enabling grace to say no to temptation, of choosing to take all practical steps to avoid known areas of temptation and flee from those that surprise us.

How then can we deal with our tendency toward worldliness? It is not by determining that we will not be worldly, but by committing ourselves to becoming more godly.

Practice of true community involves responsibilities and actions that do not come naturally to us.

As we search the Scriptures, we must allow them to search us, to sit in judgment upon our character and conduct.

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.