The Adequacy of God

Over the last few months, I have been leading a group at our church through J.I. Packer's classic, Knowing God. We finished the book last night with the final chapter, "The Adequacy of God," which is full of quotes worth sharing. Here are just a few:

The simple statement "God is for us" is in truth one of the richest and weightiest utterances that the Bible contains.

Think against your feelings; argue yourself out of the gloom they have spread; unmask the unbelief they have nourished; take yourself in hand, talk to yourself, make yourself look up from your problems to the God of the gospel; let evangelical thinking correct emotional thinking.

There are two sorts of sick consciences, those that are not aware enough of sin and those that are not aware enough of pardon....

Your God is faithful to you, and he is adequate for you. You will never need more than he can supply, and what he supplies, both materially and spiritually, will always be enough for the present.

The meaning of "he will give us all things" [Rom. 8:32] can be put thus: one day we shall see that nothing - literally nothing - which could have increased our eternal happiness has been denied us, and that nothing - literally nothing - that could have reduced that happiness has been left with us. What higher assurance do we want than that?