The Level Of Our Obedience

We Ought To Be As Earnest And Frequent In Our Prayers Of Thanksgiving When The Cupboard Is Full As We Would Be In Our Prayers Of Supplication If The Cupboards Were Bare.

So Often We Try To Develop Christian Character And Conduct Without Taking The Time To Develop God-centered Devotion. We Try To Please God Without Taking The Time To Walk With Him And Develop A Relationship With Him. This Is Impossible To Do.

As We Grow In The Knowledge Of God's Holiness, Even Though We Are Growing In The Practice Of Holiness, It Seems The Gap Between Our Knowledge And Our Practice Always Gets Wider. This Is The Holy Spirit's Way Of Drawing Us To More And More Holiness.

Sometimes The End God Has In Mind Is To Exercise Our Faith, So He Brings Us Into Straitened Circumstances So That We Might Look Up To Him And See His Deliverance.

The Purpose Of God's Discipline Is Not To Punish Us But To Transform Us.