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We are included in that futility.
Pain is not the islands of our lives but the ocean; disappointment or letdown is the stage on which all of life unfolds, not an occasional blip on an otherwise comfortable and smooth life.
in our growth in grace is a humble openness to receiving the bitternesses of life as God’s gentle way of drawing us out of the misery of self and more deeply into spiritual maturity.
Through the pain of disappointment and frustration, God weans us from the love of this world.
our hearts will latch on to anything in this world short of God himself and will seek to draw strength from that created thing instead of the Creator and his love.
But it’s like a child going into heart surgery confident that he can fix his heart on his own.
Pain seeds glory.
But pain does not let us go on as before.
every one of us who is in Christ is either killing sin or being killed by sin. Either getting stronger or getting weaker.
not to view the pain of our lives as contributing in any way to Christ’s atoning work.
actual tools
Bible reading and prayer.
Reading the Bible is inhaling. Praying is exhaling.
we are put here to spread God’s reputation and honor.
the gifts can never quench our soul thirst; only the giver can do that.
not only because we are wrong in our minds but also because we are empty in our souls.
in the way rainfall is different from your garden hose—it comes
But it is lamentably wrong.
flow out of the Bible’s central message,
Make the Bible your central daily ritual.
interrelated and mutually dependent they are.
naturally find within themselves the impulse to speak to their heavenly Father.
keeping in step with the indwelling Spirit.
Spirit applies salvation.
because of the Spirit, you can grow.
The Spirit would be poured out. Geerhardus Vos demonstrated this in a seminal article called “The Eschatological Aspect of the Pauline Conception of the Spirit.”
The answer is that we do not need the Spirit to live a moral life, but we do need the Spirit to live a supernatural life.
I have one thing to say. Look to Christ.
different facets of the one diamond of growth.
