The central reality for Christians is the personal, unalterable,
persevering commitment that God makes to us. Perseverance is not the
result of our determination, it is the result of God’s faithfulness. We
survive in the way of faith not because we have extraordinary stamina
but because God is righteous. Christian discipleship is a process of
paying more and more attention to God’s righteousness and less and less
attention to our own; finding the meaning of our lives not by probing
our moods and motives and morals but by believing in God’s will and
purposes; making a map of the faithfulness of God, not charting the rise
and fall of our enthusiasm.
- Eugene Peterson, A Long Obedience in the Same Direction, 128-129
Tullian Tchividjian
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