This is the secret of being content: To learn and accept that we live daily by God's unmerited favor given through Christ, and that we can respond to any and every situation by His divine enablement through the Holy Spirit.

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.

God's guidance is almost always step-by-step; He does not show us our life's plan all at once. Sometimes our anxiousness to know the will of God comes from a desire to peer over God's shoulder to see what His plan is. What we need to do is learn to trust Him to guide us.

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

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

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