“ The passive righteousness of faith frees me from passing final judgment on myself. ”
The world isn't scandalized by our freedom but by our fakeness.
~ Tullian Tchividjian
Your pain could be God prying open your life and heart to remove a gift of His that you've been holding on to more dearly than Him.
The apostle Paul claimed the Law is written on the 'fleshy tables' of the human heart (2 Cor. 3:3 KJV). What he meant are these 'shoulds' and 'shouldn'ts' are both instinctual and inescapable, part of our DNA. They are a psychological reality. We may justify our actions away, but deep down, we know when we've done something wrong.
The great hope we find in the Christian faith is that God is not us.
