“Even the most regular, seemingly unimportant tasks of my life must be shaped and directed by a heartfelt desire for the glory of God.”1
“Today you will envy the blessings of another, or you will bask in the wonder of the amazing grace you have been given.”
“Yes, your life is messy and hard, but that’s not a failure of the plan; it is the plan. It’s God working to complete what he’s begun in you.”
“The Bible tells you that real peace is found in resting in the wisdom of the One who holds all of your “what-ifs” and “if-onlys” in his loving hands.”
“If my heart is ever going to be freed of grumbling and ruled by gratitude, I need your grace: grace to remember, grace to see, grace that produces a heart of humble joy.”
“Running from the presence of God has the futility of ‘trying to shovel smoke with a rake.’”
“Jesus demands everything, not just so we would submit to his control, but to free us from the control of things that were never designed to control us.”
“The blinding ability of sin is so powerful and persuasive that you and I literally need daily intervention.”
“We forget that God’s primary goal is not changing our situations or relationships so that we can be happy, but changing us through our situations and relationships so that we will be holy.”
“When Christ is my hope, he becomes the one thing in which I have confidence. I act on his wisdom and bank on his grace. I trust his promises and I rely on his presence. And I pursue all the good things that he has promised me simply because I trust him. So, I am not manipulating, controlling, or threatening my way through life to get what I want, because I have found what I want in Christ. He is my hope.”
“Love is willing self-sacrifice for the good of another that does not require reciprocation or that the person being loved is deserving.”
“Sin doesn’t always look sinful to us; sometimes it looks beautiful. That’s why we need grace to see sin for what it really is – dark, dangerous, enslaving and destructive.”
“Sin is powerful, but not as powerful as the liberating power of grace.”
“You are called to be a public and influential ambassador of a glorious King, but you must resist the desire to be a king. You are called to trumpet God’s glory, but you must never take that glory for yourself. You are called to a position of leadership, influence, and prominence, but, in that position you are called to ‘humble yourself under the mighty hand of God.’”
“What do I really want in life: the success of God’s agenda of grace or the fulfillment of my catalog of desires?”
“Prayer is not bringing your list and asking God to sign on the bottom. Prayer is handing God a blank sheet that you have already signed and trusting him to fill it out as he sees fit.”
“The one thing worth celebrating for all eternity is your redemption.”
“His love for you is never a result of your character; it is a clear demonstration of his.”
“We all fail somehow, someway every day. Often failure is the workroom God uses in our lives to reform us to be what we need to be in order to be more successful tools in his hands.”
“Biblical literacy does not dispel all confusion and mystery from your life because while God reveals his will for you in the Bible, he does not reveal all the things he will do in your life for your good and his glory. God surprises you.”
1 All of the following quotes are from the websites below:
Paul David Tripp Quotes (Author of Parenting)
I appreciated this devotion today, Curt. Thank you!