How could there be refining fires without our enduring some heat?

The enlarging of the soul requires not only some remodeling, but some excavating.

The gross size of our talent inventories is less important than the net use of our talents?

God is very serious about joy in the lives of His children.

The imperfections of others never release us from the need to work on our own shortcomings.

We can tell much by what we have already willing discarded along the pathway of discipleship. It is the only pathway where littering is permissible, even encouraged. In the early stages, the debris left behind includes the grosser sins of commission. Later debris differs; things begin to be discarded which have caused the misuse or underuse of our time and talent.

We can learn that at the center of our agency is our freedom to form a healthy attitude toward whatever circumstances we are placed in! Those, for instance, who stretch themselves in service- though laced with limiting diseases-are often the healthiest among us! The Spirit can drive the flesh beyond where the body first agrees to go!