The Lord longs to exalt His people as trophies of His work in them.

God wanted Israel, as He wants Christians, to learn to utterly abhor and detest anything that had the potential of coming between them and their God. The believer's enemies are typically internal rather than external, and they pose a powerful threat to spiritual health and progress.

Curiosity is an enormous challenge to godly living.

Courage is the most fundamental of all virtues.

God's loving discipline brings us face-to-face with our pride.

Compassion for victims is sometimes forgotten in a misapplied concern for their oppressors and murderers.

There is a kind of misguided pity that deals gently with false teachers at the expense of their victims.