You are under God's invitation to repentance; and to disbelieve forgiveness is to call the truth, holiness, and faithfulness of God into question. If you will not believe forgiveness, pretend what you please, it is in truth because you hate repentance.

Reason's line is too short to fathom the depths of the Father's love, of the blood of the Son, and the promises of the gospel built thereon, wherein forgiveness dwells. Men cannot by their rational consideration launch out into these deeps, nor draw water by them from these 'wells of salvation'. Reason stands amazed, and cries, 'How can these things be?' It can but gather cockleshells... at the shore of this ocean.

None in the world deal deal worse with God than those who have an ungrounded persuasion of forgiveness

'There is a respect in (Spirit-driven recovery) to the love of God; and this breaks the heart of the poor returning sinner. Sorrow from the law shuts itself up in the soul, and strangleth it. Sorrow from the thoughts of the love of God opens it, and causes it to flow forth. Thoughts of sinning against the love of God, managed by the Holy Ghost -- what shall I say? their effects in the heart are not to be expressed.'

'Every addiction is a counterfeit dependency' 🧐😮 Why did I write that down? What was my thought process? Why didn't I remember it? Or find that little note sooner? I have no idea. But it hasn't been far from my mind since I found that note a couple weeks ago. Every addiction is a counterfeit dependency -- it weedles its way into a heart and mind and will and props itself up as a false god. It raises itself up against the knowledge of God, muzzles and shackles His Spirit, sears and silences conscience, and displaces the Son of God in our affections. It takes us captive to the law of sin. Addiction is the spirit of lawlessness. Addiction is the spirit of antichrist