Quotes about Redemption

Your biggest need (and mine) is a fully restored relationship with God.

It's never hopeless and you're never helpless if Immanuel has invaded your life with his glory and grace.

Only as we see our story enfolded in the larger story of redemption will we begin to live God-honoring lives.

God justifies the ungodly. This means there really is hope for people like us.

The cross welcomes us to look inside and around us and be dissatisfied. It welcomes us not to the dissatisfaction that leaves us hopeless, but a dissatisfaction that leads us to the foot of the cross where mercy and grace are found.

Lord, please crush my heart with the guilt of my sin so that you may fill it once again with the glory of your redeeming grace.

You and I never could have started at the fall of Adam and Eve and used reason to predict the coming of Jesus and his death on the cross. Old Testament believers knew that God was going to deal with sin and give new life to his people because God told them that this was what he was going to do. But they did not know that the death of the Son of God would be the means by which this would happen.

God is holy, but we're not. Jesus became our righteousness so that we can stand before God, holy in him.

But here's what you have to face. God, for your good and his glory, has chosen to keep you for a while in this broken-down world. He has chosen to employ the hardships of this world to complete the work that he has begun in you. He does not leave you alone. He does not leave you without resources. He blesses you with his new morning mercies. But he has you right where he wants you.

Their disappointed thinking had a fatal flaw in it. What they saw as being in the way of God's plan was actually part of his plan; what caused their faith to weaken was actually God's tool to build their faith.

So remember today that no matter how hard your story is right here, right now, it is guaranteed for you as God's child that it will end better than anything you can now imagine, and that glory will never end!

Live in hope because paradise is surely coming, and stop asking this fallen world to be the paradise it will never be.