to live for Christ, i first must die to all the rivals in my life.
only You can satisfy.

from "when i don't desire God" by Piper

"Now there was only one hope, the sovereign grace of God. God would have to transform my heart to do what a heart cannot make itself do, namely, want what it ought to want. Only God can make the depraved heart desire God."

- John Piper

He's in control.

"I know your burden, child! I shaped it—I poised it in My own hand...even as I laid it on, I said I shall be near, and while she leans on Me, this burden shall be Mine, not hers...Do not fear to impose it on a shoulder which upholds the government of worlds! Yet closer come! You are not near ...enough! You love Me! I know it. Doubt not, then. But, loving me, lean hard!"
Octavius Winslow