Solid Joys May 20 How

When you love Christ, you don't take much thought for your life in this world. Rather, you live for the glory of God's grace. “Truly ... What feels to us like a waste is what God plans. He works through the most hopeless circumstances. "And whatever you do, ... God is so eager to work for us that he goes around looking for more work to do for people who will trust him. "I lift up my eyes to the ... When we love our enemies, we show how God is both merciful and all-satisfying. “Love your enemies, do good to those who hate ... If we are going to enjoy God duly, we must know him truly. "And all the people went their way . . . to make great rejoicing, because ... Jesus knows all his sheep by name; that is, he knows them individually and intimately. “My sheep hear my voice, and I know them.

We are not born again by deciding to believe. God makes us willing to believe by causing us to be born again. "This is the love of ... Jesus promises a glorious resurrection where all the losses of this life will be repaid. “If anyone comes to me and does not hate his ... God is free to choose the least likely candidates for his grace. "In that same hour he [Jesus] rejoiced in the Holy Spirit and said, ... How did you come to be a Christian? Join Charles Spurgeon and joyfully confess, “I ascribe my change wholly to God!” "In love he ... God gets the glory of being the benefactor of grace, not the beneficiary of service. “The eyes of the Lord run to and fro throughout ... Patience is indeed a fruit of the Holy Spirit, but the Spirit empowers us (with all his fruit) through hearing with faith. "

We can know that our sins are taken away and that we will be safe in the judgment, if we trust Christ in such a way that it makes us ... God made summer as a foretaste of heaven, not a substitute. "If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are ... God requires good works not as the ground of our justification (which is the righteousness of Christ alone), but as an evidence of it ... God's electing love is absolutely free. It is the gracious overflow of his boundless happiness guided by his infinite wisdom. “Behold ... The essence of loving God is enjoying all he is. And this enjoyment of God glorifies his worth most fully. "O God, you are my God; ... God is pursuing with omnipotent delight a worldwide purpose of gathering a people for his name from every tribe and language ...

Hope and love do not come from nowhere. They grow out of ideas — views of reality — revealed in the Scriptures. "The aim of our ...