Quotes from Bruce A. Ware

Though the Holy Spirit is God, equal in essence to the Father and the Son, yet his role is consistently to defer honor, to seek to bring about the glory of another.

May our minds be granted greater comprehension so that our hearts may be filled with deepened affection.

There are no "little obediences." Every opportunity given us by God, either to obey or to disobey, is an opportunity for that character formation and strengthening of faith that can prepare us for the greater challenges of faith God has in mind for us in the future.

The only way to make sense, then, of the fact that Jesus came in the power of the Spirit is to understand that he lived his life fundamentally as a man, and as such, he relied on the Spirit to provide the power, grace, knowledge, wisdom, direction, and enablement he needed, moment by moment and day by day, to fulfill the mission the Father sent him to accomplish.

There is nothing accidental in suffering.

To obey to the point of death requires the ability to die, and for this, Jesus had to be human.

he resisted the temptation to avoid suffering

the very resources Jesus used to live his obedient life are resources given also to all of us who trust and follow him.

The very resource of Holy Spirit empowerment granted to Jesus for his life of obedience and faithfulness to the Father is now granted to Jesus's disciples as they carry forward the message of Christ, living lives of obedience to Christ, all in the power of the Spirit.

This truly is the God of lesser glory, because of his lesser knowledge, lesser wisdom, lesser discernment, lesser ability, lesser reliability, and lesser guidance.