“We habitually and instinctively look to other things besides God and
his grace as our justification, hope, significance, and security. We
believe the gospel at one level, but at deeper levels we do not. Human
approval, professional success, power and influence, family and clan
identity- all of these things serve as our heart’s ‘functional trust’
rather than what Christ has done, and as a result we continue to be
driven to a great degree by fear, anger, and a lack of self-control. You
cannot change such things through mere willpower, through learning
Biblical principles and trying to carry them out. We can only change
permanently as we take the gospel more deeply into our understanding and
into our hearts. We must feed on the gospel, as it were, digesting it
and making it part of ourselves. That is how we grow.”
Tim Keller, The Prodigal God, p. 115
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