“Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus” (Philippians 2:5).

Although salvation is free, it is not cheap, since it required the Creator, Himself, to become man and submit to an agonizing death on the cross. This was the mind of Christ!

“Greatly desiring to see thee, being mindful of thy tears, that I may be filled with joy” (II Timothy 1:4).

Paul greatly loved young Timothy, his son in the faith, and that love was fully reciprocated. When Timothy learned of Paul’s latest sufferings and approaching execution, he unashamedly wept, and Paul was greatly moved by it.

“Destroy thou them, O God; let them fall by their own counsels; cast them out in the multitude of their transgressions; for they have rebelled against thee” (Psalm 5:10).

“I will raise up for them a plant of renown, and they shall be no more consumed with hunger in the land, neither bear the shame of the heathen any more” (Ezekiel 34:29).

“When He prepared the heavens, I was there: when He set a compass upon the face of the depth: When He established the clouds above: when He strengthened the fountains of the deep” (Proverbs 8:27,28).