When your sin is exposed, you will run toward confession and forgiveness or self-righteousness and self-justification.

There is a God of awesome grace who meets his children in moments of darkness and difficulty. He is worth running to. He is worth waiting for. He brings rest when it seems like there is no rest to be found.

You cannot divide human beings into those who worship and those who don't. Everybody worships; it's just a matter of what, or whom, we serve.

Sin is powerful, but not as powerful as the liberating power of grace.

Love is willing self-sacrifice for the good of another that does not require reciprocation or that the person being loved is deserving

It is a sweet thing that we serve a dissatisfied God who has destinations in mind for us that we would never choose for ourselves. It really is a good thing that he will not be satisfied until he has gotten us exactly where he created us and re-created us to be. Most of us would have been satisfied to stay at home, and many of us would have quit the journey long before it was completed. But our heavenly Father won't give up until each one of his children has completed the journey.

God's grace doesn't always come in comfortable forms. But it's still grace, and it's still evidence that He loves us.