1. We can lay down our sledgehammers of moralistic performance, which aren’t effective anyway, and we can trust that we are his and his life is ours.
  2. He doesn’t consume us, even though that is what we deserve. Instead, Jesus comes down to us and consumes all our sin by taking it on himself.
  3. He is the God who always is, whose Word is true, and never fails. He is a God who acts and always does what he says he’s going to do.
  4. Nothing good happens when you get ahead of God and take matters into your own hands.
  5. Bitterness took root when he began approaching the Word merely as a burden he was called to carry rather than a balm that his soul needed, too.

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