Love was the bedrock of Jesus' life, the very reason He came to seek and save the lost.

The single most important hindrance to world evangelization right now is the lack of total involvement by the body of Christ.

The most unhappy people in the world are the ones who live only for themselves. All that they do, they do only for their own sake. For these self- centered individuals, the most precious things in the world is their ‘self.’ Like a cancer that eats and destroys its own cells, the self-centered individual is slowly dying inwardly.

With all the decision making in my life, I often have to pause, look up and remember God is the One working behind the scenes. I say to myself, “He is able to work all things out for good. I just need to submit to Him and His ways. I can rest.

Yet so often it seems that victory eludes us. It is when our self-confidence is finally destroyed and is replaced with dependence upon God that we have victory.

As long as Christian life remains our life we will not understand the Christ of the New Testament. You are not your own.

The most unhappy people in the world are the ones who live only for themselves.