Only if you first seek inner forgiveness will your confrontation be temperate, wise, and gracious. Only when you have lost the need to see the other person hurt will you have any chance of actually bringing about change, reconciliation, and healing. You have to submit to the costly suffering and death of forgiveness if there is going to be any resurrection.

Christ did not suffer so you wouldn’t suffer. He suffered so when you suffer you will become like Him.

Jesus experienced homelessness at Christmas so that we could experience a love we could never lose.

I hate the moment when suddenly my anger turns into tears

Unless we believe the gospel, we will be driven in all we do-whether obeying or disobeying-by pride ('self-love') or fear ('of damnation'). Apart from 'grateful remembering' of the gospel, all good works are done then for sinful motives. Mere moral effort may restrain the heart, but does not truly change the heart. Moral effort merely 'jury rigs' the evil of the heart to produce moral behavior out of self-interest. It is only a matter of time before such a thin tissue collapses.

To be a Christian is a standing, a legal position. It means to be a child of God. You are or you are not, there is no try.

The peace of God is not the absence of fear. It, in fact, is His presence.