The further you go in the revealed thoughts of God, the clearer you see that God's aim in creating the world was to display the value of his own glory.

When you see Jesus as your Treasure, the Spirit has blown through your heart.

If you must choose between loving someone and acting so that they feel loved, always choose to love them.

For the mind of faith, a promised act of God is as good as done.

I've never heard anyone say the really deep lessons of life have come in times of ease and comfort. But, I have heard many saints say every significant advance I've ever made in grasping in the depth of God's love and growing deep with Him, have come through suffering.

So you can see what is happening in the New Testament. Worship is being significantly deinstitutionalized, delocalized, de-externalized. The whole thrust is being taken off of ceremony and seasons and places and forms and is being shifted to what is happening in the heart - not just on Sunday but every day and all the time in all of life.

Our deeds are not the basis of our salvation, they are the evidence of our salvation. They are not foundation, they are demonstration.