Living is about relationship with Him. And the way He accomplishes this is to reduce us down, down to dependence on Him, a moment-by-moment involvement.

A lover isn't motivated primarily by self-satisfaction but by relationship. A lover is focused on the one they love.

How can we live a life where our knowledge is Christ? We were created for Christ to be our knowledge and He wants us to enter this reality.

Knowledge is Christ, and knowing apart from Christ is just separation from Christ. All knowing is Christ or it is opinions separating us from Him.

The willful independence of thinking rather than listening has always earned me the same consequences as those received in the Garden—separation from God.

Christ designed me with a personhood, which He has matched in His plan and purpose for my life. When I hold to old opinions of myself, I derail the reality of the true me.

With all the reality shows and political hijinks out there, many of us are being tempted to daily become judge and jury of our fellow man with our opinions.

We have a lovely parting gifts from the fall in the Garden – opinions. Opinions are actually imprisoning walls containing me and block my acceptance of God's sovereign move.

Did I approach my quiet times like a job? Did I function like I had work to do, and come hell or high water, I was going to do it.

The heart is the seat and center of human life, and is where the issues of the spirit and the will are settled.

I'm anchored to my heart because it beats with the reality of me. We can't be men after God's own heart without being connected to our hearts first.

The heart sends out clues to signal us, like red flags of distress. These waving banners are sent up like flares to warn and attract our attention.