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“Only if Jesus stays real to the heart can you be consistently joyful enough in him to avoid making medicine your whole self-worth…”

In the beginning, then, God worked. Work was not a necessary evil that came into the picture later, or something human beings were created to do but that was beneath the Great God Himself. No, God worked for the sheer joy of it. Work could not have a more exalted inauguration.

Jesus prayed, “if this cup cannot pass except I drink it, Thy will be done”… the chief ingredient in the cup of sorrow was separation from God… and shame on me, for whatever else was in that cup, my sins were there, all the sins of my life… ever so bitter and distasteful.”

“Those who are still afraid of men have no fear of God, and those who have fear of God have ceased to be afraid of men.”

Christian love draws no distinction between one enemy and another…. Who is to be the object of such a love, if not those whose hearts are stifled with hatred?…. God loves His enemies- that is the glory of His love.”

“For God is a God who bears… bore our flesh, bore the cross, bore our sins, thus making atonement for us. In the same way his followers are also called upon to bear, and that is precisely what it means to be a Christian… But to go one’s way under the sign of the cross is not misery and desperation, but peace and refreshment for the soul, it is the highest joy… under the yoke of him who knows us…