worldliness, 36 worldview, 28, 56, 81

We can labor for Christ while we live, and we can live with Christ when we die.

Perhaps if we were to think of doing everything for God first and foremost, it would quite radically change what we do for one another.

You will know that you know God when sometimes what he says makes you weep as he humbles your pride. Reverses your expectations. Upsets your priorities. Offends your behavior. Challenges your thinking.

To speak like this requires a certain view of yourself. I am poor, so the Bible is precious. I am hungry, so the Bible is the sweetest of foods. I am unsure, disorientated, and floundering, so the Bible is sure and trustworthy.

do not understand the Bible. . . . By grace of my abiding ignorance, it is always new to me. I am never not instructed.”

The more childlike you are toward the Bible, the more likely you are to find it having just the right words for you.

Remember your Creator by letting his Word dispel your illusions and confronting your folly even if it hurts—and it may often hurt.

But the way the Bible actually works is by being beautiful because it is true, and by being true because it is beautiful.