To see Him and know Him and be in His presence is the soul’s final feast. Beyond this there is no quest. Words fail. We call it pleasure, joy, delight. But these are weak pointers to the unspeakable experience.

Christ did not die to forgive sinners who go on treasuring anything above seeing and savoring God. And people who would be happy in heaven if Christ were not there, will not be there. The gospel is not a way to get people to heaven; it is a way to get people to God. It's a way of overcoming every obstacle to everlasting joy in God. If we don't want God above all things, we have not been converted by the gospel.

Missions is the overflow of our delight in God because missions is the overflow of God's delight in being God.

humility is beyond our reach. if it were a product of reaching, we would instinctively be proud of reaching it. it is a gift.

If we love God's fame and are committed to magnifying His name above all things, we cannot be indifferent to world missions.

If a tornado twists at 175 miles an hour and stays on the ground like a massive lawnmower for 50 miles, God gave the command.

Don't follow a defeated foe. Follow Christ. It is costly. You will be an exile in this age. But you will be free.