What kind of person should you be to someone who has fallen? The kind of person you will run to when you fall.

The smaller you get-the smaller life makes you-the easier it is to see the grandeur of grace. While I am far more incapable than I may have initially thought, God is infinitely more capable than I ever hoped.

God's acceptance of us cannot be gained by our successes nor forfeited by our failures.

The Bible is one long story of God meeting our rebellion with His rescue, our sin with His salvation, our guilt with His grace, our badness with His goodness. The overwhelming focus of the Bible is not the work of the redeemed but the work of the Redeemer. Which means that the Bible is not first a recipe for Christian living but a revelation book of Jesus who is the answer to our un-Christian living.

Our minds are affected by sin. Our hearts are affected by sin. Our wills are affected by sin. Our bodies are affected by sin.

Our deepest fear is judgment. Our deepest longing is love. The gospel of grace removes the one and provides the other.

Your pain could be God prying open your life and heart to remove a gift of His that you've been on to more dearly than Him.