When the fruit of your service is out of all proportion to the gifts you possess, THAT is Blessing!
Our old history ends with the Cross; our new history begins with the resurrection.
We think of the Christian life as a ‘changed life’ but it is not that. What God offers us is an ‘exchanged life,’ a ‘substituted life,’ and Christ is our Substitute within.
One gains by losing self for others and not by hoarding for oneself.
Spiritual advancement is measured by faithful obedience.
By the time the average Christian gets his temperature up to normal, everybody thinks he has a fever!