If we chase the things that ‘tickle our ears,’ we’ll probably end up finding out that they’re going to ‘torture our lives.

I am far too often the author of terribly poor decisions. Yet I must rest in the unalterable fact that God says I am far better than what the sum total of those decisions would ever suggest.

If I’m concerned about why I’ve changed in the way I have, I might start by being concerned about the places where I’ve been.

It’s not that I’ve been invited to the hole I’m standing in. It’s that I accepted the invitation.

Ethics might be optional, but the consequences are not.

If I craft my own ethics, they will serve my agendas rather than guide them. And that is something akin to racing a car down a mountain road without a steering wheel and somehow assuming that all is well.

There are few things worse than wasting away in a prison that I myself constructed with such ignorance that I am helpless to escape my own construction.

Will we choose to be the ‘pieces’ that our sin has blown us into? Or will we turn to the God who can pick up each one and gently assemble them into the ‘whole’ that we’ve never known simply because it’s a ‘whole’ that He has never forgotten?

If you’re going to ignore God, at least be mature enough to take responsibility for what’s going to happen after you do that.