If gratitude is not rooted in the beauty of God before the gift, it is probably disguised idolatry. May God grant us a heart to delight in him for who he is so that all our gratitude for his gifts will be the echo of our joy in the excellency of the Giver!

Why does God bless us with abundance? So we can have enough to live on and then use the rest for all manner of good works that alleviate spiritual and physical misery. Enough for us; abundance for others.

Jerusalem meant one thing for Jesus: certain death.

The bloodline of Jesus is thicker, deeper, stronger than the bloodline of race, ethnicity and family.

He has made me wary of chronological snobbery. That is, he showed me that newness is no virtue and oldness is no vice. Truth and beauty and goodness are not determined by when they exist. Nothing is inferior for being old, and nothing is valuable for being modern. This has freed me from the tyranny of novelty and opened for me the wisdom of the ages.

Being infinite, God is inexhaustibly interesting. It is therefore impossible that God be boring.

Journaling is a way to be a good steward of the Spirit's illuminations.