The heart that delights in God and longs only to see His glory advance will seldom be conscious of sacrifice. God in His wisdom asks that we first love Him and then live in keeping with that core value. He does not want His people to think of what they do as sacrificial, even though from the world's point of view it may be just that. Gratitude for grace of God will always be found near the center of the Biblical Christian's most powerful motivations.

Those who serve God in vocational ministry must learn to trust Him for their daily needs before they can encourage others to do so.

Even the wisest people learn little from their successes; God warns His people against allowing their victories (which He will grant) to lead them into pride and spiritual indifference. Instead, they should pay close attention to God's Word.

Even guilty people deserve to be treated as those made in the image of God.

There is no limit to what God's people can expect their God to do if they are rightly related to Him.

Intimacy with God is to be preferred above material wealth.

The spiritual heritage of the godly lives on after they are gone.