If There Were Never Any

When We Preach The Love Of God There Is A Danger Of Forgetting That The Bible Reveals Not First The Love Of God But The Intense, Blazing Holiness Of God, With His Love At The Center Of That Holiness.

Sorrow Burns Up A Great Amount Of Shallowness.

Joy Is The Great Note All Through The Bible. We Have The Notion Of Joy That Arises From Good Spirits Or Good Health, But The Miracle Of Joy Of God Has Nothing To Do With A Man's Life Or His Circumstances Or The Condition He Is In. Jesus Christ Does Not Come To A Man And Say, 'cheer Up.' He Plants Within A Man The Miracle Of The Joy Of God's Own Nature.

We Have Become So Self-centered That We Go To God Only For Something From Him, And Not For God Himself.

Prayer Is Often A Temptation To Bank On A Miracle Of God Instead Of On A Moral Issue, I.e., It Is Much Easier To Ask God To Do My Work Than It Is To Do It Myself. Until We Are Disciplined Properly, We Will Always Be Inclined To Bank On God's Miracles And Refuse To Do The Moral Thing Ourselves. It Is Our Job, And It Will Never Be Done Unless We Do It.