Performancism is the mindset that equates our identity and value directly with our performance and accomplishments.

The grace of God sets us free from a life of perfection, performing, and pretending.

Even one who has been to God a million times with the same problem need not fear exhausting the grace of God.

Remember on your best day that Jesus had to die for you. Remember on your worst day that he did.

Unfulfilled dreams, ongoing relational tension, the loss of friendships, a hard marriage, rebellious teenagers, the death of loved ones, remaining sinful patterns - whatever it is for you - live long enough, lose enough, suffer enough, and the idealism of youth fades, leaving behind the reality of life in a broken world as a broken person.

What is indisputable is the fact that unbelief is the force that gives birth to all of our bad behavior and every moral failure. It is the root.

When we depend on anything smaller than God to provide us with the security, significance, meaning, and value that we long for, God will love us enough to take it away. Much of our anger and bitterness, therefore, is God prying open our hands and taking away something we've held onto more tightly than him.