As a preacher said long ago, “Grace is not sweet, if sin is not bitter.”

If you can withhold your criticism long enough to extend God’s grace, the life-transforming power you’ve been given is yours to give to another.

Sometimes the Bible reveals aspects of grace through prophecies like this, but also through poetry, history, proverbs, and inspired letters.

We are children of our Heavenly Father, and because we are His children, His love will never leave or forsake us.

However our rescue comes, the One who ultimately rescues is God.

The valleys of our sin have been filled with Christ’s righteousness.

Yes, there is a path to walk, but if we step off, we have an advocate with the Father who paid the penalty for our sin.

Paul reminds us that there is no temptation in the world that is not common to us all.

When we ask God for help, we do so with the confidence that the One who knows the end from the beginning will do precisely what is best.

Whenever we pray in Jesus’ name we are praying as Jesus did: “Yet, not my will, Father, but your will be done.”