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I am feeling frisky, so I am going to post 3 quotes today:

"One of the reasons we are not as Christ-centered and cross-saturated as we shold be is that we have not realized that everything - every good, and everthing bad that God turns for the good of his redeemed children - was purchased by the death of Christ for us" (p. 51).

"Suffering is God's design in the sin-soaked world (Romans 8:20). It portrays sin's horror for the world to see. It punishes sin's guilt for those who do not believe in Christ. It breaks sin's power for those who take up their cross and follow Jesus. And because sin is the belittling of the all-satisfying glory of God, the suffering that breaks its power is a severe mercy" (p. 62)

"...when Jesus Christ is the object of our faith there is a trust. He himself is what we need. If we only trust Christ to give us gifts and not himself as the all-satisfying gify, then we do not trust him in a way that honors him as our treasure. We simply honor the gifts. They are what we really want, not him. So biblical faith in Jesus must mean that we trust him to give us what we need most - namely, himself. That means that faith itself must include at its essence a trasuring of Christ above all things" (p. 70).