The sense of mystery must always be, for mystery means being guided by obedience to Someone Who knows more than I do.

... God loved me not because I was lovable, but because it was His nature to do so.

Everyone would like to have stronger faith. By themselves, the scriptures may not strengthen your faith, but being faithful to what they teach, does. In other words, faith cannot be separated from faithfulness.

Am I as spontaneously kind to God as I used to be, or am I only expecting God to be kind to me? Am I full of the little things that cheer His heart over me, or am I whimpering because things are going hardly with me? There is no joy in the soul that has forgotten what God prizes.

There is no joy in the soul that has forgotten what God prizes.

If our hopes are being disappointed just now, it means that they are being purified.