We dare not think that God is absent or daydreaming. The do nothing God...He's not tucked away in some far corner of the universe, uncaring, unfeeling, unthinking, uninvolved. Count on it, God intrudes in glorious and myriad ways.

We've got to remember that the core of Christ's plan is to rescue us from sin. Our pain, poverty, and broken hearts are not his ultimate focus. True, he cares about these things, but they're merely symptoms of the real problem.

The times we find ourselves having to wait on others may be the perfect opportunities to train ourselves to wait on the Lord.

God cares most not about making us comfortable, but about teaching us to hate our transgressions and to grow up spiritually to love him.

Faith isn't the ability to believe long and far into the misty future. It's simply taking God at His Word and taking the next step.

Now, most people who suffer realize that the Bible contains answers for their plight; they just don't know where to look.

God is more concerned with conforming me to the likeness of His Son than leaving me in my comfort zones. God is more interested in inward qualities than outward circumstances - things like refining my faith, humbling my heart, cleaning up my thought life and strengthening my character.