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.

God delights in providing His people with material gain and comfort, although prosperity can pose a threat to spiritual well-being.

Believers should be more concerned for God's opinion of them than for what human opponents might do to their bodies.

Curiosity is an enormous challenge to godly living.

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

The agonies of those who are falsely accused are of great concern to the living God, and He acts as their defender.

It is sometimes easier to trust God in a life-threatening battle than in the small challenges of daily life.