Christian growth does not happen by working hard to get
something you don’t have. Rather, Christian growth happens by working
hard to daily swim in the reality of what you do have. Believing again
and again the gospel of God’s free, justifying grace everyday is the
hard work we’re called to.
This means that real change happens only as we continuously rediscover
the gospel. The progress of the Christian life is “not our movement
toward the goal; it’s the movement of the goal on us.” Sanctification
involves God’s attack on our unbelief—our self-centered refusal to
believe that God’s approval of us in Christ is full and final. It
happens as we daily receive and rest in our unconditional justification.
As G. C. Berkouwer said, “The heart of sanctification is the life which
feeds on justification.” -Tullian Tchividjian:
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