Desire not gifts, but mercies from God; not pebbles but pearls, and always labor for that which God never bestows but in love.
I pray that in this extended time of social distancing we might have a time of spiritual nearing. Affliction refines the affections.
God is great. This truth cannot be measured by our present circumstances. But our hope can be measured by this truth.
Nothing is so likely to keep a man out of heaven, and prevent him seeing Christ, as pride.