There is, however, equally great incentive to worship and love God in the thought that, for some unfathomable reason, He wants me as His friend, and desires to be my friend, and has given His Son to die for me in order to realize this purpose. not merely that we know God, but that He knows us.
How can we turn our knowledge about God into knowledge of God? The rule for doing this is simple but demanding. It is that we turn each Truth that we learn about God into matter for meditation before God, leading to prayer and praise to God.
Today, on our own turf, we face pagan ignorance about God every bit as deep as that which the early church faced in the Roman Empire.
When we reach the outer limit of what Scripture says, it is time to stop arguing and start worshipping.
Were it not for the work of the Holy Spirit there would be no gospel, no faith, no church, no Christianity in the world at all.
We are not fit for a place in God’s family; the idea of his loving and exalting us sinners as he loves and has exalted the Lord Jesus sounds ludicrous and wild – yet that, and nothing less than that, is what our adoption means.
We need to discover all over again that worship is natural to the Christian, as it was to the godly Israelites who wrote the psalms, and that the habit of celebrating the greatness and graciousness of God yields an endless flow of thankfulness, joy, and zeal.
God uses chronic pain and weakness, along with other afflictions, as his chisel for sculpting our lives.
If our theology does not quicken the conscience and soften the heart, it actually hardens both.
We never move on FROM the Gospel, we move on IN the Gospel.
Disregard the study of God, and you sentence yourself to stumble and blunder through life blindfolded.
The way to be truly happy is to be truly human, and the way to be truly human is to be truly godly.
There are few things stressed more strongly in the Bible than the reality of God’s work as Judge.
We are only living truly human lives just so far as we are labouring to keep God’s commandments; no further.
The task of the church is to make the invisible Kingdom visible through faithful Christian living and witness-bearing .
We dishonor God if we proclaim a Savior who satisfies and then go around discontent.
Justification is the truly dramatic transition from the status of a condemned criminal awaiting a terrible sentence to that of an heir awaiting a fabulous inheritance.
Our aim in studying the Godhead must be to know God himself better. Our concern must be to enlarge our acquaintance, not simply with the doctrine of God’s attributes, but with the living God whose attributes they are.
The character of God is today, and always will be, exactly what it was in Bible times.
The most excellent study of expanding the soul, is the science of Christ, and Him crucified, and the knowledge of the Godhead in the glorious Trinity.