Pursuing the wise life may result in temporal benefits but will not secure any lasting good; so live wisely but turn to Christ.
The pursuit of the good life will only leave you empty, exasperated, and exhausted; so pursue Christ instead, in whom alone are all the treasures of true wisdom.
Paragraph 1 The covenant of works being broken by sin, and made unprofitable unto life, God was pleased to give forth the promise of Christ, the seed of the woman,…
Paragraph 6 Although true believers are not under the law as a covenant of works, to be thereby justified or condemned,13 yet it is of great use to them as…
God has afflicted mankind with the griefs of life to turn our hearts back to Him in humility by upending our illusion that human endeavor can overcome the curse.
— Paragraph 3 Besides this law, commonly called moral, God was pleased to give to the people of Israel ceremonial laws, containing several typical ordinances, partly of worship, prefiguring Christ,…
Considered apart from the LORD, all things are wearisome and frustrating and have no lasting remembrance; but God promises justice and joy to all who fear and love Him.
Life in this broken world is a confusing mess that cannot be understood or controlled by human wisdom, but by faith we can learn to be joyfully content with our…
Of the Law of God Chapter 19 — Paragraph 1 God gave to Adam a law of universal obedience written in his heart, and a particular precept of not eating…