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The deepest sorrow on earth is light in comparison to the smallest pleasure of heaven. It is a feather against an anvil, a grain of sand against a mountain, a drop of water against…
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“I surrender all,” except my money and comfort. “Take my life” but not my position or reputation. “Take my heart it is thine own,” but please don’t take that sin I enjoy so much. “…
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My faith, my anchor, has held, but not because I have been rowing hard, not because I have been steering well, not because I am made of rugged stuff, not because I am a man of migh…
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O dejected and despairing heart, you have done well in desiring great things that never came. The rest of the men spent their youth on video games; you spent it mapping out gospel-…
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We will never exhaust God with our coming to him, never tire God with our pleas for his help. We will never reach the end of his ability to assist or his capacity to intervene. We …
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“Drink!” say the great rivers of the world. “Drink until you are satisfied and then drink again. Drink without hesitation. Drink without concern. Drink without fear that you will e…
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Even if you aren’t married, your sexuality is still achieving God’s ultimate purpose for which it is designed. If you long for a wedding day and honeymoon, your divine Husband long…
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The ultimate reason God made you sexual was not so you could fulfill that desire in marriage (good as that is). Your sexuality is meant to give you the vocabulary and imagination t…
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For those unmarried, this verse is your Creator giving you permission to excuse yourself from the romantic rat race. If love and romance never awaken for you, you can still be vibr…
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Christ was not sent to mend wounded people or wake sleepy people or advise confused people or inspire bored people or spur on lazy people or educate ignorant people, but to raise d…
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Yes, God has hatred, Goodwin says -- toward sin. And the combination of love for us plus hatred for sin equals the most omnipotent certainty possible that he will see us through to…
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He doesn't limit himself to working with the unspoiled parts of us that remain after a lifetime of sinning. His power runs so deep that he is able to redeem the very worst parts of…
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Perhaps Satan's greatest victory in your life today is not the sin in which you regularly indulge but the dark thoughts of God's heart that cause you to go there in the first place…
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Not once are we told that God is "provoked to love" or "provoked to mercy." His anger requires provocation; his mercy is pent up, ready to gush forth.
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Left to our own natural intuitions about God, we will conclude that mercy is his strange work and judgment his natural work. Rewiring our vision of God as we study the Scripture, w…
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The one who rules and ordains all things brings affliction into our lives with a certain divine reluctance.
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To the degree that we believe God is sovereign in all our affliction, to that degree we are able to be comforted that he does not afflict us from the heart.
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Jesus provides new sharpness to who God is, but not fundamentally new content.
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We bear in mind here that the Spirit will never fan the flames of the felt love of Christ beyond the degree to which Christ actually loves us; that is impossible.
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Though the crowds call him the friend of sinners as an indictment, the label is one of unspeakable comfort for those who know themselves to be sinners. That Jesus is friend to sinn…
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The Son of God clothed himself with humanity and will never unclothe himself.
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Why not build in to your life unhurried quiet, where, among other disciplines, you consider the radiance of who he actually is, what animates him, what his deepest delight is? Why …
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"To the uttermost" in Hebrews 7:25 means: God's forgiving, redeeming, restoring touch reaches down into the darkest crevice of our souls, those places where we are most ashamed, mo…
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We are to-the-uttermost sinners. We need a to-the-uttermost Savior.
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The Son's intercession does not reflect the coolness of the Father but the sheer warmth of the Son. Christ does not intercede because the Father's heart is tepid toward us but beca…
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Intercession applies what the atonement accomplished.
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Christ's heart is a steady reality flowing through time. It isn't as if his heart throbbed for his people when he was on earth but has dissipated now that he is in heaven. It's not…
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In order for you to fall short of loving embrace into the heart of Christ both now and into eternity, Christ himself would have to be pulled down out of heaven and put back into th…
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We are factories of fresh resistance to Christ's love.
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Our sinfulness runs so deep that a tepid measure of gentleness from Jesus would not be enough; but as deep as our sinfulness runs, ever deeper runs his gentleness.
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If you are in Christ, you have a Friend who, in your sorrow, will never lob down a pep talk from heaven. He cannot bear to hold himself at a distance. Nothing can hold him back. Hi…
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Jesus Christ is comforted when you draw from the riches of his atoning work, because his own body is getting healed.
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Our unbelieving hearts tread cautiously here. Is it not presumptuous audacity to draw on the mercy of Christ in an unfiltered way? Shouldn't we be measured and reasonable, careful …
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When we today partake of that atoning work, coming to Christ for forgiveness, communing with him despite our sinfulness, we are laying hold of Christ's own deepest longing and joy.
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When you come to Christ for mercy and love and help in your anguish and perplexity and sinfulness, you are going with the flow of his own deepest wishes, not against them.
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Miracles are not an interruption of the natural order but the restoration of the natural order.
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If there appears to be some sense of disproportion in the Bible's portrait of Christ, then let us be accordingly disproportionate. Better to be biblical than artificially "balanced…
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Only as we drink down the kindness of the heart of Christ will we leave in our wake, everywhere we go, the aroma of heaven, and die one day having startled the world with glimpses …
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The heart, in biblical terms, is not part of who we are but the center of who we are.
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The mercy of God reaches down and rinses clean not only obviously bad people but fraudulently good people, both of whom equally stand in need of resurrection.
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We can be immoral dead people, or we can be moral dead people. Either way, we're dead.
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The Christian life is a lifelong shedding of tepid thoughts about the goodness of God.