What surrounds your life shapes your judgment and your hope.
Just know that as a believer, you are running in a stadium enveloped by past champions of faith.
Will you/I allow them to shape our judgment and hope?
Hebrews 12:1: "Therefore, since we are surrounded . . ."
"Eat into the very soul of the Bible until, at last, you come to talk in scriptural language, and your spirit is flavored with the words of the Lord, so that your blood is "Bibline" and the very essence of the Bible flows from you." - Charles Spurgeon
"I am convinced that we should never allow ourselves to forget that God’s grace is designed to move us not from dependence to independence, but from independence to a greater and deeper dependence on him." @PaulTripp
“I am convinced that the enemy of our souls will gladly give us our formal theology and our regular worship services, if he can control the thoughts and desires of our hearts at street level.” - @PaulTripp
"Personal holiness and humble confession cannot be separated. As long as God calls us to be holy as he is holy, and as long as sin still lives inside of us, confession must be an essential ingredient in the life of every child of God." @PaulTripp
"There is a connection between the depth of our fear of God and the strength of our resistance against temptation. When fear (life-shaping awe) of the Lord rules our hearts, we will resist temptation no matter what the consequences of our resistance may be." - @PaulTripp
"An idol is anything that for a moment, a season, or a lifetime exercises the rule or control over your heart that only the Lord should have." - @PaulTripp
Admit Your Mistake
Apologize and Seek Forgiveness
Try to Make It Right
Learn from Your Mistake
Move On
Rich Griffith - "Discipleship is Leadership"
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"Sin always hardens the conscience, locks you in the prison of your own defensiveness and rationalizations, and eats you up slowly from the inside." - @timkellernyc