The less you are gripped with God’s holiness, the less awe you will experience in your faith. A truer sight of his holiness will give you a truer sight of your corruptions. And it is only as you see both of these reali- ties that you will find his mercy extended toward you in Jesus Christ to be soul-satisfying and worship-inspiring.

-Joe Thorn

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.

– Paul Tripp

Who will bring a charge against God’s elect? It is God who justifies. This is what the resurrection is to us. To those who believe, the resurrection is power working in our hearts. It’s not perfection, it’s power working in our hearts. It’s that as we stumble about on the path to sanctification, Christ holds fast.

Missions exists because worship doesn’t. Worship is ultimate, not missions, because God is ultimate, not man. When this age is over, and the countless millions of the redeemed fall on their faces before the throne of God, missions will be no more.

You will cleanse no sin from your life that you have not first recognized as being pardoned through the cross. This is because holiness always starts in the heart. The essence of holiness is not new behavior, activity, or disciplines. Holiness is new affections, new desires, and new motives that then lead to new behavior. If you don’t see your sin as completely pardoned, then your affections, desires, and motives will be wrong. You will aim to prove yourself. Your focus will be the consequences of your sin rather than hating the sin itself and desiring God in its place.

– Tim Chester