We often want earthly treasure for serving God, but what we need to know is that those who serve God are his greatest treasure.
'Return to me, and I will return to you, says the Lord of hosts.'
Even the greatest kings and armies of the earth are just small specks of nothing compared to God.
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.
Though earthly leaders may be limited by their many faults & frailties, our great hope is that we have a perfect priest in heaven.
He urges you to become a little, humble child, to rest in his arms, and to receive his blessing.
Following Jesus means we need to follow His Word – not our opinions or our emotions.
Our goal in life is not self-preservation but Christ-exaltation.
A son honors his father, and a servant his master. If then I am a father, where is my honor?
Those who have followed the devil’s pattern are in grave danger of sharing in the devil’s punishment.
Jesus carefully defines that the greatest thing that a human can be is a humble servant.