La vie est belle. ♥

What a fool I am, O God, to chase after other things when You are enough.

The issue is not how many ways there are, but that we want to make our own way. The beauty of the cross is that God made His way to us!

Radical obedience to Christ is not easy; it’s dangerous. It’s not comfort, health, or wealth. It’s not prosperity in this world. Radical obedience to Christ risks losing all those things. But in the end, such risk finds it’s reward in Christ. And he is more than enough for us.

God cares more about the sanctity of his people than the “success” of our ministry.

If you can trust God to save you for eternity, you can trust him to lead you for a lifetime.

The modern-day gospel says, ‘God loves you and has a wonderful plan for your life. Therefore, follow these steps, and you can be saved.’ Meanwhile, the biblical gospel says, 'You are an enemy of God, dead in your sin, and in your present state of rebellion, you are not even able to see that you need life, much less to cause yourself to come to life. Therefore, you are radically dependent on God to do something in your life that you could never do.

The way to conquer sin is not by working hard to change our deeds, but by trusting Jesus to change our desires.

This picture always warms me up.