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No suffering takes God by surprise. He alone is the perfect help in our pain. Should all around our soul give way, he then is all our hope and stay.

We cannot respond however we want when we suffer. Though we can grieve and mourn, if we never get to worship, we’ve stopped short.

If God stripped away our gifts — our income, our family, even our own health — would we curse him or bless his name?

Job remained steadfast in his suffering and has left us with a model for how to trust God with our pain.

No one starts as a mature Christian. Keep seeking God. Keep laboring to grow. And keep trusting that God will bring about our maturity.

God changes minds through ordinary means: Our gaze fixed upon his word, our knees bowed in prayer, and our time spent with our eternal family.

We cannot disagree with Christians in any way we want. God has given us boundaries and ways forward.

A heavenly mindset will not be lofty and self-righteous, but humble and God-dependent.

God wants us to grow up and leave behind childish ways. And he has done everything necessary to ensure it can happen.

Those who live for riches and the praise of man today will have hunger, mourning, and weeping tomorrow.

Do we err when we love others for the reward God offers us? No. Only those who labor for what God promises are rich enough to love others selflessly.

Those who follow Christ can weep now, can be poor and temporarily hated now, and yet remain wildly blessed because theirs is the coming kingdom.

If we are Christ’s disciples — whether poor, hungry, weeping, or persecuted — we are blessed.

All of the New Testament commandments are a call to become in experience what we are in Christ. And what we are in Christ is a new creation.

The Christian’s life on earth will always be walking along the narrow path. Living for sin is easy. Following Christ requires carrying a cross daily.