When you pray for God to intervene and remove unwanted misery from your life, ask also to be filled completely.

God doesn’t rescue you out of obligation, compulsion, or duty. He does it because he delights in you.

God offers you total forgiveness – a clean slate – and a new life, yet sin and filth are waiting like a bird in the shade tree you just parked beneath.

Maybe you know the feeling of walking into a room and wondering if everyone knows your biggest flaw, mistake, or shortcoming.

Jesus knew we wouldn’t understand forgiving until we knew how badly we needed forgiveness.