Extraordinary afflictions are not always the punishment of extraordinary sins, but sometimes the trial of extraordinary graces. Sanctified afflictions are spiritual promotions.
Matthew Henry
Jesus answered him, “It is written, ‘Worship the Lord your God, and serve only him.’”
Luke 4:8
The New Revised Standard Version
The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.
Augustine
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The fact is there is nothing that we are doing that God could not raise up a stone in the field to do for him. The realization of this puts us in our true place. Though, lest we get too knocked down by such a realization of our insignificance, let me hasten to add that there is one thing that we alone can give God…and that is our personal love. No one else can give God our personal love. This is our great significance.
M. Basil Pennington
Now I say that each believer should confess his sins to God when he is aware of them, while there is time to be forgiven. Judgment will not touch him if he does.
Psalm 32:6
The Living Bible
One of the most lasting pleasures you can experience is the feeling that comes over you when you genuinely forgive an enemy—whether he knows it or not.
O. A. Battista
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