The root of all sin is the suspicion that God is not good.
Do we so appreciate the marvelous salvation of Jesus Christ that we are our utmost for His highest?
Sin is blatant mutiny against God, and either sin or God must die in my life.
The battle is lost or won in the secret places of the will before God, never first in the external world.
God can never make us wine if we object to the fingers He uses to crush us with.
There is a call to spiritual perseverance. A call not to hang on and do nothing, but to work deliberately, knowing with certainty that God will never be defeated.