Suffering for Jesus is temporary. Pleasure in Jesus is eternal.

The assurance of the believer is not that God will save him even if he stops believing, but that God will keep him believing--God will sustain you in faith, he will make your hope firm and stable to the end. He will cause you to persevere.

Without the renewed mind, we will distort the Scriptures to avoid their radical commands for self-denial, and love, and purity, and supreme satisfaction in Christ alone.

Lives of faith are the great mirror of the dependability of God.

From eternity to eternity, the beauty of God is pervasive and practical. Ask him to open the eyes of your heart (Ephesians 1:18). Give your life to this quest - seeing and savoring more and more of the happifying beauty of God.

If you live gladly to make others glad in God, your life will be hard, your risks will be high, and your joy will be full.

Seeing & savoring Jesus Christ is the most important seeing and savoring you'll ever do.