No amount of human willfulness can overcome God's determined love.

The fear of God does not come naturally to human beings; it must be learned through Scripture, worship, and the hard knocks of experience.

In God's pattern of justice, He takes the risk of the guilty going free but not the innocent being punished.

Recalling what our lives were like before Jesus Christ entered them will help keep our daily problems in perspective.

Attachments to older forms of worship may be comfortable, but they may contain elements of falsehood that make them unacceptable to God.

Protection of human life can be costly; but so is the neglect of that protection.

Although their parents died in the wilderness for their stubbornness, Israel could profit from the older generation's failure by remembering that God had used adversity to train them.