Duty Or Guilt May Motivate Us For

Every Day God Patiently Bears With Us, And Every Day We Are Tempted To Become Impatient With Our Friends, Neighbors, And Loved Ones. And Our Faults And Failures Before God Are So Much More Serious Than The Petty Actions Of Others That Tend To Irritate Us! God Calls Us To Graciously Bear With The Weaknesses Of Others, Tolerating Them And Forgiving Them Even As He Has Forgiven Us.

We're More Concerned About Our Own "victory" Over Sin Than We Are About The Fact That Our Sins Grieve God's Heart.

We Are 100 Percent Responsible For The Pursuit Of Holiness, But At The Same Time We Are 100 Percent Dependent Upon The Holy Spirit To Enable Us In That Pursuit. The Pursuit Of Holiness Is Not A Pull-yourself-up-by-your-own-bootstraps Approach To The Christian Life.

This Is The Amazing Story Of God’s Grace. God Saves Us By His Grace And Transforms Us More And More Into The Likeness Of His Son By His Grace. In All Our Trials And Afflictions, He Sustains And Strengthens Us By His Grace. He Calls Us By Grace To Perform Our Own Unique Function Within The Body Of Christ. Then, Again By Grace, He Gives To Each Of Us The Spiritual Gifts Necessary To Fulfill Our Calling. As We Serve Him, He Makes That Service Acceptable To Himself By Grace, And Then Rewards Us A Hundredfold By Grace.

Preach The Gospel To Yourself Every Day.