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181 " Unlike human love, which is often fickle and temporary, God’s love never fails, no matter what. "
― Paul David Tripp , New Morning Mercies: A Daily Gospel Devotional
182 " What you and I bring to our relationship with God is desperate spiritual and moral need. "
183 " Lord, please crush my heart with the guilt of my sin so that you may fill it once again with the glory of your redeeming grace. "
184 " Denying sin makes a liar out of God and denies the message of his Word. Here’s the bottom line—either God, in his Word, is true when he says that you have a problem you can’t solve or you’re right that you’re not so bad after all. It can’t be both ways. "
185 " you love the gifts and not the Giver, your heart will never be satisfied, but if you love the Giver, your heart will be content and you will be able to enjoy his gifts while keeping them in their proper place. "
186 " Prayer is, in itself, a recognition that something exists in the world that is greater and more glorious than you. Prayer is meant to remind you that your little world, filled with your little plans, is not ultimate. Prayer teaches you that there is a greater glory than any glory that you could ever want for yourself. Prayer is meant to help you remember that the deepest, most important motivation for every person who has ever taken a breath is the awe of God. "
187 " ¿Cuáles son los valores que determinan tu horario? ¿Qué punto de vista sobre la vida determina cómo tomas decisiones? ¿Qué perspectiva sobre la naturaleza y el propósito de tu existencia forman tus prioridades diarias? ¿Cómo moldea tu pensamiento lo que haces y dices cada día? Pablo escribe: “Ya que han resucitado con Cristo, busquen las cosas de arriba, donde está Cristo sentado a la derecha de Dios. Concentren su atención en las cosas de arriba, no en las de la tierra” (Col 3:1-2). "
188 " What will you hook your heart to today in the hope that it will give you life? "
189 " All the things that disappoint you now are to remind you that this is not all there is "
190 " You’re going to hunger for some success in life. May you hunger for the complete success of the gospel in your heart. "
191 " Whatever commands the love of your heart also shapes the direction of your life. "
192 " Faith is a deep-seated belief in the existence of God that radically alters the way you live your life. Now, here’s the rub. Faith isn’t natural for us. Biblical faith is counterintuitive and countercultural. So we even need God’s grace to have faith to believe in the existence of the One whose grace we so desperately need. And the grace is yours for the asking again today. "
193 " As much as we try to make sense of our lives, there are things that we simply aren’t able to understand. "
194 " You don’t need to read a mystery novel; your life is a mystery to you. "
195 " Yet we all tend to think that we are more righteous than we are, and when we think this, we have taken the first step to embracing the delusion that maybe we’re not so bad in God’s eyes after all. "
196 " What is that lie? It is the lie that was first told in the garden of Eden—the false promise that life, heart-satisfying life, could be found somewhere outside the Creator. It is the lie of lies, the cruelest lie ever told. If you believe it, it will not only leave you empty and discouraged, but it will set your life on a course of destruction. "
197 " So the desire for good possessions is not wrong, but it must not rule your heart. "
198 " As I’ve said before, I really do love the honesty of the Bible. I don’t need vacuous religious platitudes that delude me into thinking that life is better than it really is. I don’t need a form of faith "
199 " The appropriateness of my responses to others is directly related to the accuracy of my view of myself, and for that there is grace too. "
200 " Now, having said that, it is true that you have been called to work. You have been called to give yourself to the work of God’s kingdom and to daily obey the commands of the King. You’ve been called to recognize that your life is no longer your own because you were bought with a price. But the work you do is never to be done in order to earn something. The work you’re called to do is to be done in celebration of something. You don’t work to earn God’s favor; rather, your work is a hymn of thanks for the favor that Christ achieved on your behalf. You don’t have to wonder if you’ve worked enough. You don’t have to fear that you’ll mess up and get booted out of the family. You don’t have to fear seeing the back of God’s head. You don’t have to be haunted by the question of whether you’ve done enough for long enough. The bridge of impossibility has been walked by Christ. The job is done. Your relationship with God is eternally secure. Now, in thankfulness, go out and do his work. "