"The hard work of Christian growth, therefore, is to think less of
ourselves and our performance and more of Jesus and his performance for
us. Ironically, when we focus mostly on our need to get better, we
actually get worse. We become neurotic and self absorbed. Preoccupation
with our effort instead of with God's effort for us makes us
increasingly self-centered and morbidly introspective
Again, think of it this way: sanctification is the daily hard work of
going back to the reality of our justification. it's going back to the
certainty of our objectivity secured pardon in Christ and hitting the
refresh button a thousand times a day. Or, as Martin Luther so aptly put
it in his Lectures on Romans, "To progress is always to begin again." Real spiritual progress, in other words, requires a daily going backwards."
Jesus + Nothing = Everything p. 95
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