“If God gave us all spiritual blessings at once, we would soon fail to acknowledge our heavenly benefactor. He weakens our corruptions by degrees, and by renewing influences of his grace. God left Hezekiah, ‘to test him and to know all that was in his heart’ (2Chr 32:31). God so dispenses grace that he will be going and coming as to his actual influence upon us. O the glory of God’s grace! From the first to the last we are indebted to it. We can do nothing without him.” –Thomas Manton, commenting on Philippians 1:6