O Holy Spirit, descend plentifully into my heart. Enlighten the dark corners of this neglected dwelling and scatter there Thy cheerful beams!

Augustine

the rich young man

"And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or children or lands, for my name's sake, will receive a hundredfold and will inherit eternal life. But many who are first will be last, and the last first."
Matthew 19:29-30

The LORD is my chosen portion and my cup; indeed, I have a beautiful inheritance.
psalm 16:5-6

i'm halfway through 'God is the Gospel' by Piper.

"Until people use the gospel to get to God, they use it wrongly."

"People who would be happy in heaven if Christ were not there, will not be there. The gospel is not a way to get people to heaven; it is a way to get people to God. If we don't want God above all things, we have not been converted by the gospel."


heaven isn't heaven without my King.
would you be satisfied in heaven if Jesus wasn't there?

"I love the Lord because he hears and answers my prayers. Because he bends down and listens. I will pray as long as I have breath."

Psalm 116:1-2

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