Gospel Wakefulness Quotes

“Christ’s sacrifice on the cross and resurrection out of the grave are big enough, grand enough, effective enough, and eternal enough to cover your shoddy Christian life,”
― Jared C. Wilson, Gospel Wakefulness

“We will always prefer lesser satisfactions to the satisfaction of Christ, because the lesser ones appeal to the god of self—a ravenous, insatiable, fickle idol indeed—while satisfaction in Christ requires that we assassinate that god. We won’t know what it really means for the joy of the Lord to be our strength until we’ve had intravenous idolatry yanked out and all other crutches kicked away. For many of us, Jesus won’t be our absolute treasure until we are out of options.”
― Jared C. Wilson, Gospel Wakefulness

“Where we always look for and request deliverance from suffering, the testimony of Scripture is mostly about what God wants to do for us in our suffering.”
― Jared C. Wilson, Gospel Wakefulness

“God razes us before he raises us.”
― Jared C. Wilson, Gospel Wakefulness

“Some days taking up your cross feels like putting up with an annoying coworker or a flat tire. And some days taking up your cross feels like what it is—death.”
― Jared C. Wilson, Gospel Wakefulness

“Sometimes when God closes a door, it’s because he wants us inside when the building collapses.”
― Jared C. Wilson, Gospel Wakefulness

“God wants us broken so that any power in us can be undeniably attributed to him. If self-reliance could reliably and ultimately contribute to our success and fulfillment, God’s glory would be diminished, having to share precious space with our lesser glory. But we are not glorious, even in our self-made victories. For God to get all the glory, he requires our brokenness, while promising his wholeness. He gets the glory when we trust him in difficult times. Murray Brett writes, “The price of God’s glory shining in our lives is brokenness.”1 The cost is high, but so is the benefit. And aside from that, there is no alternative.”
― Jared C. Wilson, Gospel Wakefulness

“The cross is proof that God loves sinners.”
― Jared C. Wilson, Gospel Wakefulness

“The gradual dawn of gospel wakefulness is occurring for you as the Spirit brings your sin to mind, pours more grace upon you, and bears more fruit of good character and good works in you. To this end, then, you should read the gospel, listen to the gospel, sing the gospel, write the gospel, share the gospel, and preach the gospel, all the while asking God to administer its power more and more to your life. Situate yourself constantly in the crosshairs of the gospel. You cannot “Behold!” it if you aren’t looking. As my friend Ray Ortlund has been known to say, “Stare at the glory of God until you see it.”7”
― Jared C. Wilson, Gospel Wakefulness

“gospel wakefulness means treasuring Christ more greatly and savoring his power more sweetly.”
― Jared C. Wilson, Gospel Wakefulness

“When we are shackled to pain, the Spirit speaks the truth of God’s Word to us as our daily bread throughout the duration of our sentence.”
― Jared C. Wilson, Gospel Wakefulness

“God is not an antidote to the rogue element of pain.”
― Jared C. Wilson, Gospel Wakefulness

“In comfort and convenience we are less inclined to trust God. But in the pain of life we are ever conscious of our reliance on him. C. S. Lewis calls pain “God’s megaphone” for this reason.3 In times of ease, God whispers. In times of pain, he is shouting to us, rousing us to turn our attention to him.”
― Jared C. Wilson, Gospel Wakefulness

“Where we always look for and request deliverance from suffering, the testimony of Scripture is mostly about what God”
― Jared C. Wilson, Gospel Wakefulness

“Things break, plans fail, storms come, and people sin, people get sick, people die. We need not attribute the pain of life to personal sin. God is certainly free to do whatever he’d like with any of us.”
― Jared C. Wilson, Gospel Wakefulness

“To honestly proclaim the greatness of Christ requires honestly confessing the bankruptcy of our own souls.”
― Jared C. Wilson, Gospel Wakefulness

“The Christian cannot be stopped, even if you kill him.”
― Jared C. Wilson, Gospel Wakefulness

“There are no coach seats on the journey to Christ when he calls his elect from the four winds, from one end of the heavens to another.”
― Jared C. Wilson, Gospel Wakefulness

“People who know the gospel’s power will share it powerfully.”
― Jared C. Wilson, Gospel Wakefulness