True restoration takes patience, subtlety, skill, and grace.

See yourself and weep. See your God and rejoice.

Do you require yourself to remember? In order to live as you can and should, you first must remember who you are and what you’ve been given.

God's design in our pain enables us to look back and say: He loves me enough to take me where I would have never wanted to go in order to produce in me what I never could have achieved on my own.

We rarely do anything with on single motive.

Every day you preach to yourself a gospel of your loneliness, inability, and lack of resources or you faithfully preach to yourself the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ.

Our sin is what separates us from God, but it's our self righteousness that keeps us from running to Him for the grace He willingly gives to all who come.