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"What that means is that humility is not a virtue for the fearful and weak. Humility recognizes grace and mercy, and then stands on that grace and mercy in confidence. Humility doesn't make forgiven sinners mousey or sheepish; rather, true humility makes forgiven sinners bold and courageous."

The will is to the soul what the wheels are to the chariot, and grace is to the will what oil is to the wheels. When we receive the Spirit of grace, we are said to receive an unction from the Holy One (1 John 2:20). And when the soul is made as the chariots of Aminadab (Song of Solomon 6:12),..... It runs freely after the Lord and cheerfully addresses itself to the very service.

Affliction is a furnace to separate the dross from the more pure and noble gold. Multitudes of hypocrites, like flies in a hot summer, are generated by the church's prosperity - but winter weather kills them.

"....there is, perhaps, no better time than during the Christmas season to recognize that evading death is not the point of living. This life is not meant to be lived for the sole purpose of its own preservation. That momentous birth in Bethlehem was all about taking up a mortal life to lay it down."