Sinclair B. Ferguson
Appearances can be deceptive. The fact that we cannot see what God is doing does not mean that He is doing nothing. The Lord has His own timetable. It is we who must learn to adjust to it, not vice versa. When God's time comes nothing will stand in His way. We can therefore wait for Him with this happy confidence: "As for God, His way is perfect" (2 Samuel 22:31).Collection: Mean
My security as a Christian does not reside in the strength of my faith but in the indestructibili ty of my Savior.Collection: Faith
How do we bring glory to God? The Bible’s short answer is: by growing more and more like Jesus Christ.Collection: Bible
Love is not maximum emotion. Love is maximum commitment.Collection: Love
God is God; you are but one of His creatures. Your only joy is to be found in obeying Him, your true fulfillment is to be found in worshiping Him, your only wisdom is to be found in trusting and knowing Him.Collection: Knowing
Thinking that I deserve heaven is a sure sign I have no understanding of the gospel.Collection: Thinking
When I know that Christ is the one real sacrifice for my sins, that His work on my behalf has been accepted by God, that He is my heavenly Intercessor - then His blood is the antidote to the poison in the voices that echo in my conscience, condemning me for my many failures. Indeed, Christ's shed blood chokes them into silence!Collection: Real
It is only when we want to take our lives out of the Father’s hands and have them under our own control that we find ourselves gripped with anxiety. The secret of freedom from anxiety is freedom from ourselves and abandonment of our own plans. But that spirit emerges in our lives only when our minds are filled with the knowledge that our Father can be trusted implicitly to supply everything we need.Collection: Father
Every day we need our gaze redirected from ourselves to God.Collection: Needs
Spiritual growth depends on two things: first a willingness to live according to the Word of God; second, a willingness to take whatever consequences emerge as a result.Collection: Spiritual
Humility is not simply feeling small and useless - like an inferiority complex. It is sensing how great and glorious God is, and seeing myself in that light.Collection: Humility
The true church is too different for the world to tolerate it.Collection: Church
The fear of the Lord tends to take away all other fears... This is the secret of Christian courage and boldness.Collection: Christian
There is a difference between going to a service "for the worship" and going to a service "to worship the Lord." The distinction appears to be a minor one, but it may imply the difference between the worship of God and the worship of music!Collection: Differences
Jesus undid everything that Adam did, and did everything Adam failed to do.Collection: Jesus
Be obedient even when you do not know where obedience may lead youCollection: May
The weakest faith gets the same strong Christ as does the strongest faith.Collection: Strong
Repentance is a characteristic of the whole life, not the action of a single moment.Collection: Single Mom
Knowing God is your single greatest privilege as a ChristianCollection: Christian
There is nothing more important to learn about Christian growth than this: Growing in grace means becoming like Christ.Collection: Christian
Christian contentment, therefore, is the direct fruit of having no higher ambition than to belong to the Lord and to be totally at His disposal in the place He appoints, at the time He chooses, with the provision He is pleased to make.Collection: Christian
God can be trusted even when he cannot be seen or understood.Collection: Understood
We best defend the Lord's glory by speaking first TO Him about unbelieving men rather than speaking first ABOUT Him to unbelieving men.Collection: Men
The foundation of our love for the Lord lies in the recognition of His holiness, our sinfulness, and His grace.Collection: Lying
Jesus Christ is able to set us free because He has dealt with the sin that enslaves us.Collection: Jesus
Where God is at the center of things, worship inevitably follows.Collection: Worship
Christians have a new identity. We are no longer 'in Adam' but 'in Christ'; no longer in the flesh but in the Spirit.Collection: Christian
The holiness of God teaches us that there is only one way to deal with sin- radically, seriously, painfully, constantly. If you do not so live, you do not live in the presence of the Holy One of Israel.Collection: Israel
Our first priority in ministry must be love. Love for His Word, love for His people, and love for His appearing.Collection: People
God has chosen us. Our status is not a matter of our worthiness, but of His love.Collection: His Love
You must know, rest in, think through, and act upon your new identity - you are in ChristCollection: Thinking
Even those of us who have weak faith have the same strong Christ as others!Collection: Strong
The Father did not require the death of Christ to persuade Him to love us. Christ died because the Father loves us.Collection: Father
The foundation of worship in the heart is not emotional ("I feel full of worship" or "The atmosphere is so worshipful"). Actually, it is theological. Worship is not something we "work up," it is something that "comes down" to us, from the character of God.Collection: Heart
For worship is, essentially, the reverse of sin. Sin began (and begins) when we succumb to the temptation, "You shall be as gods." We make ourselves the center of the universe and dethrone God. By contrast, worship is giving God his true worth; it is acknowledging Him to be the Lord of all things, and the Lord of everything in our lives. He is, indeed, the Most High God!Collection: Giving
There is a difference between a well-instructed congregation and a well-nourished one.Collection: Differences
Worship is not something we "work up," it is something that "comes down" to us, from the character of God.Collection: Character
The problem is not in the clarity of the revelation. The problem is in the darkness of the human mind.Collection: Darkness
The only thing of my very own which I contribute to my redemption is the sin from which I need to be redeemed.Collection: Needs
When you look at the Cross, what do you see? You see God’s awesome faithfulness. Nothing – not even the instinct to spare His own Son – will turn him back from keeping His word.Collection: Son
Until we acknowledge our sin and guilt, we will never come to discover that it can be forgiven.Collection: Guilt
We discover the will of God by a sensitive application of Scripture to our own lives.Collection: Scripture
The Son of God came to dwell in human flesh for us in order that He might come to dwell in us by His Spirit.Collection: Son
We are far too good at analyzing what is wrong with the culture and far too myopic at analyzing what is wrong in the church.Collection: Church
Most Christians have more Bibles than they know what to do with, but have little understanding of what is in them.Collection: Christian
The real test that I believe that God is love is that tragedies don't separate me from the conviction that God is love.Collection: Real
Our thinking about who we are as Christians should not begin with what we can discover about ourselves by self-analysis. Rather, it begins with what God says about those who trust in Christ.Collection: Christian
We can never reflect too much on God's grace.Collection: Grace
The conviction that Christian doctrine matters for Christian living is one of the most important growth points of the Christian life.Collection: Christian
Remember that you are not saved by increased levels of holiness, however desirable it is that you should reach them. ...It is Christ who saves us-through faith. Your faith is a poor and crumbling thing, as is your spiritual service. Jesus Christ alone is qualified and able to save you because of what He has done.Collection: Spiritual