Our greatest fear as individuals and as a church should not be of failure, but of succeeding at things in life that don’t really matter.

Worship: “every thought, word, deed, feeling & desire. You worship what you live for, whatever is most worthy of your attention & devotion. It is what drive yous at the core & it flows from the essence of who you are.

His pleasure is not in the strength of the horse, nor his delight in the legs of the warrior; the Lord delights in those who fear him, who put their hope in his unfailing love. - Psalm 147:10-11

God has no deficiencies that I might be required to supply. He is complete in himself. He is overflowing with happiness in the fellowship of the Trinity. The upshot of this is that God is a mountain spring, not a watering trough. A mountain spring is self-replenishing. It constantly overflows and supplies. A watering trough needs to be filled with a pump or bucket brigade. So you glorify a spring by drinking not by hauling water up the hill and dumping it in the spring. And since that is the way God is, we’re not surprised to learn from Scripture—and our faith is strengthened to hold fast—that the way to please God is to come to him to get and not to give, to drink and not to water.

The problem isn’t that God has abandoned us in our pain, but that sometimes we refuse to face it with Him