Unshakable Hope: Building Our Lives on the Promises of God

by Max Lucado

God’s promises are pine trees in the Rocky Mountains of Scripture: abundant, unbending, and perennial. Some of the promises are positive, the assurance of blessings. Some are negative, the guarantee of consequences. But all are binding, for not only is God a promise maker; God is a promise keeper.

God’s goal is simply this: to rub away anything that is not of him so the inborn image of God can be seen in us.

According to the Bible you are good simply because God made you in his image. Period. He cherishes you because you bear a resemblance to him. And you will only be satisfied when you engage in your role as an image bearer of God.

Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. (James 4:7)

“You have inherited a gold mine in South Africa. It will take several years to work out all the inheritance, but in the meantime here is a down payment. Twenty million dollars.”

I wish he'd quit equating it to money. Once is okay, but this is enough!

a mind with no wandering thoughts.

What's wrong with that? A fiction writer would never be able to write if he/she didn't have wandering thoughts.