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His purpose is not the development of a person—His purpose is to make a person exactly like Himself, and the Son of God is characterized by self-expenditure.
God’s purpose is not simply to make us beautiful, plump grapes, but to make us grapes so that He may squeeze the sweetness out of us.
Not to be tempted
we were already so shameful that we would be
beneath conte...
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Temptation comes to me, suggesting a possible shortcut to the realization of my highest goal—it does not direct me toward what I understand to be evil, but toward what I understand to be good.
Temptation is something that confuses me for a while, and I don’t know whether something is right or wrong.
When I yield to it, I have made lust a god, and the temptation itself becomes the proof that it was only my own fear that prevented ...
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God does not save us from temptations—He sustains us in the midst of them (see Hebrews 2:18 and 4:15–16).
Satan does not tempt us just to make us do wrong things—he tempts us to make us lose what God has put into us through regeneration, namely, the possibility of being of value to God.
Being a disciple means deliberately identifying yourself with God’s interests in other people.
God’s life in us expresses itself as God’s life, not as human life trying to be godly.
The first thing that happens after we recognize our election by God in Christ Jesus is the destruction of our preconceived ideas, our narrow-minded thinking, and all of our other allegiances—we are turned solely into servants of God’s own purpose.
We must continually keep our soul open to the fact of God’s creative purpose, and never confuse or cloud it with our own intentions.
Once we realize that it is through the salvation of Jesus Christ that we are made perfectly fit for the purpose of God, we will understand why Jesus Christ is so strict and relentless in His demands.
He demands absolute righteousness from His servants, because He has put into them the very nature of God.
Beware lest you forget God’s purpose ...
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Jesus says, “You did not choose Me, but I chose you” (John 15:16).
That is the way the grace of God begins. It is a constraint we can never escape; we can disobey it, but we can never start it or produce it ourselves.
We are dr...
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God
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by a work of His supernatural grace, and we can never trace back to find wh...
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This work insists upon endless energy and activities, but no private life with God.
Be careful that you vigorously maintain God’s perspective, and remember that it must be done every day, little by little.
Remember that there is a passion for souls that does not come from God, but from our desire to make converts to our point of view.
God brings us into particular circumstances to educate our faith, because the nature of faith is to make the object of our faith very real to us.
