You can be sure that your deepest desires reveal important truths about your spiritual condition.
The gospel announces that God doesn't relate to us based on our feats for Jesus, but Jesus' feats for us.
The law demands that we do it all; the gospel declares that Jesus paid it all.
Explanations are a substitute for trust.
Grace always runs downhill, meeting us at the bottom, not the top.
We must reacquaint ourselves with the biblical weight of the problem that we less-than-perfect human beings contend with in the face of a holy and righteous God.