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

As we grow in the knowledge of God's holiness, even though we are growing in the practice of holiness, it seems the gap between our knowledge and our practice always gets wider. This is the Holy Spirit's way of drawing us to more and more holiness.

We take what we think are the tools of spiritual transformation into our own hands and try to sculpt ourselves into robust Christlike specimens. But spiritual transformation is primarily the work of the Holy Spirit. He is the Master Sculptor

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.

God is worthy of my loving obedience because of who He is, not because of what he does.

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.

Prayer is the most tangible expression of trust in God.