Not saved because of faith

 "We are saved not because of faith but through faith. It is Christ not faith that saves us."

-Iain Murray.

God loves us

 “God does not love us because we are valuable, but we are valuable because God loves us.”

-Martin Luther

God Himself is Happiness and Peace

 God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.

—C.S. Lewis

Floodgates of Infinite Love

 Through Christ's perfect righteousness, He has opened the floodgates of God’s infinite love and favor toward us.

-- Jerry Bridges

Lovingly Demonstrating Your Weaknesses

 “If I’m a Christian, why are there so many things that make my life so difficult? God is lovingly demonstrating to you your weakness.” 

-Paul Washer

There's so much pain. Why are there so many things that I can't overcome? So many things that make my life so difficult. It's to demonstrate to you, God is lovingly demonstrating to you your weakness. Not to leave you in your weakness, but so that you might run to him. And then there will be times when he will sustain you in power.

And then all of a sudden, it just leaves. Why? Once again, to remind you lovingly, not in judgment, not to hurt you, but lovingly to remind you lovingly, not in judgment, not to hurt you, but lovingly to remind you once again, you're forgetting that this life and power comes from communion with me. Everything is about communion with him.

-Paul Washer

Jesus' Bosom

 You may go to him as often as you will and may pour out your love into his bosom and may embrace him and lean with John on Jesus' bosom, and never shall be unwelcome, always will be well entertained.

--Jonathan Edwards

Christ will treat you not only with welcome but with dearness. When you are coming to him, he will run to meet you, to embrace you and will evermore treat you with as great love as you do him and far greater.

--Jonathan Edwards

You may solace yourself as much in his love as you will. 'Tis no presumption you may do it.

--Jonathan Edwards,

None can ever ask too much

 You are coming to a king— 


large petitions with you bring.
 

For his grace and pow'r are such,
 

none can ever ask too much. 

-- John Newton

Gladness to this Heart

 Thy works, not mine, O Christ,

Speak gladness to this heart;

They tell me all is done;

They bid my fear depart.

Horatius Bonar

He sees you clothed

 Has it yet gripped you that when God looks at you today He sees you clothed in the perfect, sinless obedience of His Son?

Jerry Bridges

All Scripture

“All scripture must be received as if God, appearing in person, visibly and full of majesty, were himself speaking.”

—John Calvin

He knew the Worst

"Nobody can produce new evidence of your depravity that will make God change his mind. For God justified you with (so to speak) his eyes open. He knew the worst about you at the time when he accepted you for Jesus' sake; and the verdict which he passed then was, and is, final."

J.I. Packer: Knowing God, p.273

Merciful Lord

Valley of Vision.  entry entitled, "Sins"  p.158.

MERCIFUL LORD,

Pardon all my sins of this day, week, year,

all the sins of my life,

sins of early, middle, and advanced years,

of omission and commission,

of morose, peevish and angry tempers,

of lip, life and walk,

of hard-heartedness, unbelief, presumption,

pride,

of unfaithfulness to the souls of men,

of want of bold decision in the cause of Christ

of deficiency in outspoken zeal for his glory,

of bringing dishonour upon thy great name,

of deception, injustice, untruthfulness

in my dealings with others,

of impurity in thought, word and deed,

of covetousness, which is idolatry,

of substance unduly hoarded, improvidently

squandered,

not consecrated to the glory of thee,

the great Giver;

sins in private and in the family,

in study and recreation, in the busy haunts

of men,

in the study of thy Word and in the neglect

of it,

in prayer irreverently offered and coldly

withheld,

in time misspent,

in yielding to Satan's wiles,

in opening my heart to his temptations,

in being unwatchful when I know him nigh,

Hein quenching the Holy Spirit;

sins against light and knowledge,

against conscience and the restraints

of thy Spirit,

against the law of eternal love.

Pardon all my sins, known and unknown,

felt and unfelt,

confessed and not confessed,

remembered or forgotten.

Good Lord, hear; and hearing, forgive.

I wear His Robes.

 I wear the righteousness of the Son of God. I do not come as I am.

Withdraw His Hand

 “If God should withdraw His hand a little, all things would immediately perish and dissolve into nothing.”

-John Calvin

Turn Your Eyes Upon Jesus

 Satan is the Accuser. His work is to turn your eyes in on yourself and despair. The Spirit is the Comforter. His work is to turn your eyes to Jesus, the rest for our souls.

Michael Reeves