Obey Him With Glad Reckless Joy.

Faith By Its Very Nature Must Be Tried, And The Real Trial Of Faith Is Not That We Find It Difficult To Trust God, But That God's Character Has To Be Cleared In Our Own Minds. Faith In Its Actual Working Out Has To Go Through Spells Of Unsyllabled Isolation. Never Confound The Trial Of Faith With The Ordinary Discipline Of Life. Much That We Call The Trial Of Faith Is The Inevitable Result Of Being Alive.

Jesus Christ Can Afford To Be Misunderstood; We Cannot. Our Weakness Lies In Always Wanting To Vindicate Ourselves.

We Are In Danger Of Forgetting That We Cannot Do What God Does, And That God Will Not Do What We Can Do. We Cannot Save Ourselves Nor Sanctify Ourselves, God Does That; But God Will Not Give Us Good Habits, He Will Not Give Us Character, He Will Not Make Us Walk Aright. We Have To Do All That Ourselves.

Ask God For What You Want, But You Cannot Ask If You Are Not Asking For A Right Thing. When You Draw Near To God, You Cease From Asking For Things."your Father Knows What Things You Have Need Of, Before You Ask Him." Then, Why Ask? That You May Get To Know Him.

If We Are In Christ The Whole Basis Of Our Goings Is God, Not Conceptions Of God, Not Ideas Of God, But God Himself. We Do Not Need Any More Ideas About God, The World Is Full Of Ideas About God, They Are All Worthless, Because The Ideas Of God In Anyone’s Head Are Of No More Use Than Our Own Ideas. What We Need Is A Real God, Not More Ideas About Him.