If we fix our eyes on temporal circumstances, we will misinterpret God’s works in the world and will miss His gracious provision for our preservation.  

We are inclined to boast in our own abilities, but the only basis for our boasting and our only hope for blessing is the LORD Himself.

There is a sickness of soul that leads to great grief, but there is a balm administered by Jesus the Physician that perfectly heals and fully restores.

True healing and deliverance from shame and judgment will not come by superficial salve but by the faithful application of gospel truth.

Paragraph 2 Our first parents, by this sin, fell from their original righteousness and communion with God, and we in them whereby death came upon all:3 all becoming dead in sin,4 and…

  6.1 Although God created man upright and perfect, and gave him a righteous law, which had been unto life had he kept it, and threatened death upon the breach…

Paragraph 5 The most wise, righteous, and gracious God does often times leave for a season His own children to manifold temptations and the corruptions of their own hearts, to…

5.4 The almighty power, unsearchable wisdom, and infinite goodness of God, so far manifest themselves in His providence, that His determinate counsel extends itself even to the first fall, and…