We are weak vessels holding a glorious gospel treasure. The treasure was never meant to magnify the vessel. The vessel exists to magnify the treasure.
When Joshua the High Priest stands before God in filthy clothes, we learn that on our own we stand condemned before God. But the good news is that Jesus has taken our filthy garments on himself and paid for our sin on the cross, and he gives us robes of perfect righteousness. And not only do we stand clothed before God when we put our faith in Christ, but we live in those clothes, as we stand called to point to Christ as testaments to his great grace in our lives.
At the cross, God addressed the sin problem we couldn’t see, with a Savior we didn’t know we needed, in order to bring us eternal life that we didn’t even know was possible.
We don't want to have missed expectations about Jesus' coming. He is coming. He is refining his church, and he will judge the world one day.
Because God's being is entirely unlike us, it should astound us that he draws near to us, by even taking on human nature and dying for us.
God will never become anything less than the perfect deity that he is. The foundation stone of God’s divine rightness and integrity will never be moved.
You have wearied the Lord with your words. But you say, “How have we wearied him?”
God cares about marriage and divorce. Our sexuality is a precious part of our humanity, and God wants us to glorify him with how we use it.
We should always be wowed by God's greatness! He turns death into life, prosperity into adversity, and mourning into dancing.
In Titus 3:3-7, we're supposed to remember the misery of our sin, see the grace that God has poured out on us through his Son and the Holy Spirit, and to cherish the hope we have as heirs of eternal life.