God Is Not An Employer Looking For

Love Is The Overflow Of Joy In God That Meets The Needs Of Others.

The Engagement Of The Heart In Worship Is The Coming Alive Of The Feelings And Emotions And Affections Of The Heart. Where Feelings For God Are Dead, Worship Is Dead.

It Was Becoming Clearer And Clearer That If I Wanted To Come To The End Of My Life And Not Say, “i’ve Wasted It!” Then I Would Need To Press All The Way In, And All The Way Up, To The Ultimate Purpose Of God And Join Him In It. If My Life Was To Have A Single, All-satisfying, Unifying Passion, It Would Have To Be God’s Passion.

Every Christian Who Struggles With Depression Struggles To Keep Their Hope Clear. There Is Nothing Wrong With The Object Of Their Hope - Jesus Christ Is Not Defective In Any Way Whatsoever. But The View From The Struggling Christian's Heart Of Their Objective Hope Could Be Obscured By Disease And Pain, The Pressures Of Life, And By Satanic Fiery Darts Shot Against Them... All Discouragement And Depression Is Related To The Obscuring Of Our Hope, And We Need To Get Those Clouds Out Of The Way And Fight Like Crazy To See Clearly How Precious Christ Is.

Christ Did Not Die To Make Good Works Merely Possible Or To Produce A Half-hearted Pursuit. He Died To Produce In Us A Passion For Good Deeds. Christian Purity Is Not The Mere Avoidance Of Evil, But The Pursuit Of Good.