Have you ever sought God with your whole heart, or have you simply given Him a feeble cry after some emotionally painful experience?
Oswald ChambersA practical help in keeping your personal purity unblemished in your relations with other people is to begin to see them as God does. Say to yourself, โThat man or that woman is perfect in Christ Jesus! That friend or that relative is perfect in Christ Jesus!
Oswald ChambersGod has one destined end for mankind - holiness! His one aim is the production of saints. God is not an eternal blessing-machine for men. He did not come to save men out of pity. He came to save men because He had created them to be holy.
Oswald ChambersThe Bible talks plentifully about joy, but it nowhere talks about a 'happy Christian.' Happiness depends on what happens; joy does not. Remember, Jesus Christ had joy, and He prayed 'that they might have my joy fulfilled in themselves.'
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