“…holding on to truth with our teeth, we must with all our might follow God, and in the exercise of wisdom regard all things to be, as they are, His; and besides, having learned that we are the most excellent of His possessions, let us commit ourselves to God, loving the Lord God, and regarding this as our business all our life long.

Clement of Alexandria. 1885. “Exhortation to the Heathen.” In Fathers of the Second Century: Hermas, Tatian, Athenagoras, Theophilus, and Clement of Alexandria (Entire), edited by Alexander Roberts, James Donaldson, and A. Cleveland Coxe, 2:206. The Ante-Nicene Fathers. Buffalo, NY: Christian Literature Company.

Trust Jesus over self! He is infinitely more worthy! God bless…