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God’s plan and His ways of working out His plan are frequently beyond our ability to fathom and understand. We must learn to trust when we don’t understand.
Jerry Bridges
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Jerry Bridges
Age: 86 †
Born: 1929
Born: December 4
Died: 2016
Died: March 6
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Faith enables us to obey when obedience is costly or seems unreasonable to the natural mind.
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God's guidance is almost always step-by-step He does not show us our life's plan all at once. Sometimes our anxiousness to know the will of God comes from a desire to peer over God's shoulder to see what His plan is. What we need to do is learn to trust Him to guide us.
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God's Word must be so strongly fixed in our minds that it becomes the dominant influence in our thoughts, our attitudes, and our actions. One of the most effective ways of influencing our minds is through memorizing Scripture. David said, I have hidden Your Word in my heart that I might not sin against You (Psm. 119:11).
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Preach the gospel to yourself every day.
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Nothing cuts the nerve of the desire to pursue holiness as much as a sense of guilt. On the contrary, nothing so motivates us to deal with sin in our lives as does the understanding and application of the two truth that our sins are forgiven and the dominion of sin is broken because of our union with Christ.
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Jesus did not die just to give us peace and a purpose in life he died to save us from the wrath of God.
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Patience is the ability to suffer a long time under the mistreatment of others without growing resentful or bitter.
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God will never allow any action against you that is not in accord with His will for you. And His will is always directed to our good.
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Sometimes the end God has in mind is to exercise our faith, so He brings us into straitened circumstances so that we might look up to Him and see His deliverance.
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We're more concerned about our own victory over sin than we are about the fact that our sins grieve God's heart.
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Our first problem is that our attitude towards sin is more self-centred than God-centred. We are more concerned about our own Victory over sin than we are about the fact that our sin grieve the heart of God. We cannot tolerate failure in our struggle with sin chiefly because we are success oriented, not because we know it is offensive to God.
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Our duty is found in the revealed will of God in the Scriptures. Our trust must be in the sovereign will of God as He works in the ordinary circumstances of our daily lives for our good and His glory.
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May we be as severe with ourselves over our own subtle sins as we are with the vile sins we condemn in others
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As we become soft and lazy in our bodies, we tend to become soft and lazy spiritually.
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The grace that brought salvation to you is the same grace that teaches or disciplines you. But you must respond on the basis of grace, not law.
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Grace... expresses two complementary thoughts: God's unmerited favor to us through Christ, and God's divine assistance to us through the Holy Spirit.
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As we search the Scriptures, we must allow them to search us, to sit in judgment upon our character and conduct.
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Love provides the motive for obeying the commands of the law, but the law provides specific direction for exercising love.
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This is the essence of God's sovereignty His absolute independence to do as He pleases and His absolute control over the actions of all His creatures. No creature, person, or empire can either thwart His will or act outside the bounds of His will.
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Justified is even better than just as if I'd never sinned. It is also just as if I'd always obeyed.
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