16 Quotes by Jon Bloom

Real freedom is the deep-seated confidence that God really will provide everything we need.

God’s grace is more clearly seen and more deeply savored in our weaknesses than in our strengths.

WE ALL WANT TO finish well, but so many of us do not. Why? Because we too easily cherish our roles in the Great Wedding more than the Wedding itself.

When the blessed Lord grants one a role to play, one must perform it faithfully, but never grasp it. The role is not the reward. The Lord is the reward.

In fact, if we do what our hearts tell us to do, we will pervert and impoverish every desire, every beauty, every person, every wonder, every joy. Our hearts want to consume these things for our own self-glory and self-indulgence. No, our hearts will not save us. We need to be saved from our hearts.

Emotions aren’t imperatives; they’re not your boss. They’re indicatives; they’re reports. Thats why Paul wrote, ” Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, to make you obey its passions; Roms 6:12.

Sometimes, in your battle with unbelief, your greatest ally will wrestle you – he might even make you limp – until you’re desperate enough to say, ‘I will not let you go unless you bless me.’ It is a great mercy to be brought to the point where you’re desperate enough to insist on what you need the most.