Do all things without grumbling. Why? You have a sovereign God who is on your side, who works everything together for your good.

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

Grace is power, not just pardon.

To love God does not mean to meet His needs, but rather to delight in Him and to be captivated by His glorious power and grace, and to value Him above all other things on earth. All the rest of the commandments are the kinds of things that we will do from our hearts, if our hearts are truly delighted with and resting in the glory of God's grace.

God loves to show mercy . . . His anger must be released by a stiff safety lock, but His mercy has a hair trigger.

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 we cannot claim to live sinless lives, then the only thing that can keep us from despairing before a holy God is that we have an Advocate in heaven and He pleads our case not on the basis of our perfection but of His propitiation.