Two Immutable facts that must be realized:
1. What God says about us is true.
2. Those truths will be proved (worked) into us by trials, struggles, and resistance.

If we can accept this process of faith, and trust it to His grace through the Spirit’s activity, we will save ourselves overmuch fear, confusion, and condemnation when we feel whacked out.

If we can believe, and help each other believe, that God is working His life and word into us in the most wise and effective way, then we can hold fast to what He says. Such believing and holding fast transforms words and ideas into unshakeable realities inside us.

All this, so that we might
be strong in the Lord and in the strength of His might. Eph. 6:10

A root set in the finest soil in the best climate is not in so sure a way of its growth to perfection as every man may be whose spirit aspires after all that which God is ready and infinitely desirous to give him. For the sun meets not the springing bud that stretches toward him with half that certainty as God, the source of all good, communicates Himself to the soul that longs to partake of Him. William Law