Sublime

One of the things we forget is that the major, big-deal war in our lives is not a war with things outside us; it’s the war that still rages inside us. In every situation, location, and relationship in our lives, there is a war for control of our hearts. This is the war of wars because we were made by God to live out of our hearts. This means that

The answer to each of these questions is humbling. We don’t always respond to others as the Savior has responded to us because we don’t share his heart. Our hearts are not always ruled by what ruled his heart. Our lives are not always motivated by what motivated his. We don’t always find joy in what brought him joy. So we lack the mercy that drove

Daniel Webster once said, “The greatest thought that has ever entered my mind is that one day I will have to stand before a holy God and give an account of my life.” He was right.

When we allow God’s Word to go beyond our ears and into our hearts, it stimulates us to do that which God is calling us to do.

You may have ten hours’ hard work daily, during which your brain has to be occupied with temporal things. God orders it so. But the abiding work is the work of the heart, not of the brain. It is the work of the heart clinging to and resting in Jesus, a work in which the Holy Spirit links us to Christ Jesus.

Every week people file into our church services aching for eternity. In our zeal to provide something they may find comfortable and useful and inoffensive, are we offending the God who wishes to offend us in awe of his glory? Are we dismissing our brother Jesus, whose formula for victory includes crucifixion?

Our hearts and our thoughts are not in our power.’ Everyone who is humble and genuinely religious recognizes that this is entirely true.”