Status Updates From Future Grace: The Purifying...

“There is a great God of grace who magnifies His own infinite self-sufficiency by fulfilling promises to helpless people who trust Him.”

“Hiding in something makes no contribution to the hiding place. All it does is show that we regard ourselves as helpless and the hiding place as a place of rescue. The condition we must meet to have this grace is not a meritorious one; it is the condition of desperation and acknowledged weakness and need.”

faith isn’t only receiving and resting in the promises of God, but enjoying and treasuring the God who gives them

“I do not know where I would turn … if I did not believe that almighty God is taking every setback and every discouragement and every controversy and every pressure and every pain, and stripping it of its destructive power and making it work for the enlargement of my joy in God.”

“Grace would not be grace if it were a response to resources in us. Grace is grace because it highlights God’s own overflowing resources of kindness. Grace is eternal because it will take that long for God to expend inexhaustible stores of goodness on us (!!!!!). Grace is free because God would not be the infinite, self-sufficient God he is if he were constrained by anything outside himself.”

gosh, what a book so far

“The grace for endurance - even glad boasting in weakness - is not primarily looking back to bygone grace. It is looking forward to the next moment’s and next month’s arrival of the power of Christ to do for us what we absolutely despair of doing ourselves.”