“Better is a little with righteousness than great revenues with injustice.” Proverbs 16:8
This is very good guidance if your aim is to be “better“ off.
"Your steadfast love, O Lord, is better than life.” Psalm 63:3
“I am sure that neither death nor life will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.” Romans 8:38–39
Being loved by God is better than life and cannot be taken by death.
I’ll follow someone on twitter but if they’re liking or retweeting stuff leads me to having an impure heart, I unfollow instantly.
even if they’re a friend.
because a true friend won’t care about a follow, they’ll care about the condition of your heart.
flee from temptation.
God didn’t say sit back, relax, and live comfortably. He said GO! Make disciples! Yes, God can move on His own, but when He said follow me, He wanted you to move too. Following Him requires obedience. It requires action. Yes, pray for His will, but also participate in it.
"As a deer pants for flowing streams, so pants my soul for you, O God. My soul thirsts for God, for the living God.” Psalm 42:1-2
One of the great and good purposes of the Psalms is to describe experiences which may be foreign to us so that we may prayerfully pursue them.
If the actions and attitudes of another person hurt our heart and rub our soul the wrong way, I pray we handle it with the grace and dignity Jesus enables us to have.
“And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in knowledge and all discernment.” (Phil. 1:9)
“Let no corrupting talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for building up, as fits the occasion, that it may give grace to those who hear.” —Ephesians 4:29
singleness. it’s a gift. a season to walk completely undistracted and devoted to what God has for you right now. there is no better opportunity to work on you. don’t waste it by complaining you’re not in the next season. there are great things he has for you in the right now.