Progress in Divine things

I'm about to wrap up A.W. Pink's book "The Sovereignty of God" in a day or so. This book has helped me see from Scripture God in a new and exciting light. The below comment from chapter 12 “The Value of This Doctrine” really stood out to me today. As I start a new journey of Bible reading (10 chapters a day) it will serve me well to keep Pink's comments in mind....

“There can be no progress in Divine things until there is the personal recognition that God is supreme, that He is to be feared and revered, that He is to be owned and served as Lord. We read the Scriptures in vain unless we come to them earnestly desiring a better knowledge of God’s will for us – any other motive is selfish and utterly inadequate and unworthy. Every prayer we send up to God is but carnal presumption unless it be offered “according to His will” – anything short of this is to ask ‘amiss,’ that we might consume upon our own lusts the thing requested. Every service we engage in is but a “dead work” unless it be done for the glory of God.”

- A.W. Pink