Unproductive worry - like Parkinson's proverbial law - tends to expand to fill the time available.

Any assessment of where we stand in relationship to Him tells us that we do not stand at all. We kneel.

If the nearly one-and-a-half million babies aborted in America each year could, somehow, vote, chameleon candidates would find fresh reason to be concerned about abortion, whereas now they are unconcerned.

Therefore, as we strive to become as the Father is and as Jesus is, we are to become more gracious and merciful, more kind and considerate. Even more, we are to do this in a world which does little to encourage such qualities of character.

Power is most safe with those who are not in love with it!

When we are unduly impatient with an omniscient God's timing, we really are suggesting that we know what's best. Strange isn't it-we who wear wrist watches seek to counsel Him who oversees cosmic clocks and calendars.

When our minds really catch hold of the significance of Jesus' atonement, the world's hold on us loosens.