We are here for God's designs, not for our own

We are here for God's designs, not for our own

We are not to preach the doing of good things; good deeds are not to be preached, they are to be performed.

If we are abandoned to Jesus we have no ends of our own to serve.

If Jesus is a teacher only, then all He can do is to tantalize us by erecting a standard we cannot come anywhere near. But if by being born again from above we know Him first as Savior, we know that He did not come to teach us only. He came to make us what He teaches we should be. The Sermon on the Mount is a statement of the life we will live when the Holy Spirit is having His way with us.

It is easy to turn our religious life into a cathedral for beautiful memories, but there are feet to be washed . . .

For understanding in spiritual matters, the golden rule is not intellect but obedience.