Fear God - He Loves You
Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth. - Colossians 3:2
God’s Ways Are Not Our Ways - Keep You Eyes on Him
“What a formidable thing it is to such creatures as we are, to have God our Maker, for our enemy ! that God who has all the tribes of pain and disease, and the innumerable host of maladies at his command ! He fills the air in which we breathe with fevers and pestilences as often as he will ; the gout and the stone arrest and seize us by his ordsr, and stretch us upon a bed of pain ; rheumatisms and colics come and go wheresoever he sends them, and execute his anger against criminals. He keeps in his hand all the various springs of pain, and every invisible rack that can torment the head or members, the bowels or the joints of man ; he sets them at their dreadful work when and where he pleases. Let the sinner tremble at the name of his power and terror, who can fill both flesh and spirit with thrilling agonies ; and yet he never punishes beyond what our iniquities deserve. How necessary is it for such sinful and guilty beings as we are, whose natures are capable of such constant and acute sensations of pain, to have the God of na ture our friend, and our reconciled God ?” The World to Come - Isaac Watts