Devotional Life – The Benefit of Scripture, Prayer, and Time with God

A private devotional life gives you an accurate view of the world. As day after day the pages of Scripture expose you to the blood and guts, smoke and dirt, of this fallen world, you are progressively freed from your hope that your fallen world, flawed people, or church will ever be the…paradise it will never be. You begin to die to unrealistic expectations…. The stark and descriptive honesty of the Bible, as it looks at the world in which you and I live and minister, has the power to kill your selfish dream that you will be able to serve your crucified King without suffering yourself.
–Paul David Tripp