We are surrounded by God’s benefits. The best use of these benefits is an unceasing expression of gratitude.
If we are proud of our talents we betray our lack of gratitude to God.
... let everyone regard himself as the steward of God in all things which he possesses.
The whole comes to this, that Christ, when he produces faith in us by the agency of his Spirit, at the same time ingrafts us into his body, that we may become partakers of all spiritual blessings.
We must remember that Satan has his miracles, too.
The fire of affliction reveals the quality of our faith