Do you think you are able to discern someone else’s motives? What about God’s motives? Regardless of how well or poorly we may be able to discern peoples’ reasoning; God has disclosed something of His own thinking to us. Tune to the Bible Study Hour as Dr. James Boice teaches us God’s revealed motives for giving out His saving grace.
In the running of the Christian life, we can err by looking only at the past; this is sin, for it is a lack of faith in God’s future blessing. But we can also err by looking only at so distant a future that we miss the more immediate blessings that God has in store for us now. If we are really to engage in that great struggle for God’s best, we must also prepare for vigorous spiritual conflict. Our striving is not only against ourselves or circumstances but against the spiritual forces of this world that would seek to hinder us.