Spiritual growth is marked by a growing realization of just how much grace you need.

The pain cleared my vision, and once it was taken away, I realized just how much I'd been relying on the endorsement of others to make me feel like I mattered.

The gospel announces that God doesn't relate to us based on our feats for Jesus, but Jesus' feats for us.

An identity based in the one-way love of God does not take into account public opinion or, thankfully, even personal opinion.

The gospel frees you from the pressure of having to fix people: your worth is located in Christ, not in their transformation.

God reminds us again and again that things between He and us are forever fixed. They are the rendezvous points where God declares to us concretely that the debt has been paid, the ledger put away, and that everything we need, in Christ we already possess. This re-convincing produces humility, because we realize that our needs are fulfilled. We don’t have to worry about ourselves anymore. This in turn frees us to stop looking out for what we think we need and liberates us to love our neighbor by looking out for what they need.

The heart of sanctification is the life which feeds on justification.