You will never be left to the limited range of your own resources.

What will it be for you today—the discontent of doubt and fear or the contentment of peace and rest?

hope is nothing less than a confident expectation of a guaranteed result.

We all need to be reminded again and again of what God has declared are the most important things in life.

truth like this is revelation that completely changes the posture of my life.

His commands are not competing demands that flow out of competing value systems. They are a single fabric of threads that, woven together, define what it means to live in a way that is good, right, beautiful, and pleasing to him.

Physical suffering exposes the delusion of personal autonomy and self-sufficiency

The war that rages in all our hearts is a war between the awe of God and the awe of self. The war really does somehow turn all of us into glory thieves. Perhaps we commit vertical larceny much more than we realize. Perhaps we quest for personal glory more than we think. Perhaps we take credit for what only God can do more often than we think we do. Perhaps, in subtle idolatry, we give credit to places and things when it really belongs to God.

If God is sovereign and his rule is complete, wise, righteous, and good, why would you fear?

The commands, principles, and case studies of Scripture will take you only so far in your quest to figure out your life. There will be moments when you simply don't understand what is going on. In fact, you will face moments when what the God who has declared himself to be good brings into your life won't seem good. It may even seem bad, very bad.

Prayer is handing God a blank sheet that you have already signed and trusting him to fill it out as he sees fit.

So peace is found only in trust, trust of the One who is in careful control of all the things that tend to rob you of your peace.