I have been listening to more sermons than doing Bible reading lately. Yesterday, I did both. As I read Psalms, I was struck by the pattern of forgetting God, consequences from God, repentance, and blessings from God. The phrase that stood out to me was, "for my name's sake". Things really aren't so much about us as we like to think.
Later, I listened to the second sermon in Mark Driscoll's sermon series on Ephesians. These were my absolute favorite quotes:
If you don’t understand that Christ is the essence of your life, that your hope, your future, your joy, your power are in Christ, you will either become arrogant trying to be a trunk, or you will become discouraged knowing that you can’t change your life, and you can’t do all that you’re supposed to do and be all that you’re supposed to be. But if you understand that your identity’s in Christ, then suddenly you understand that your hope is in Christ, and your power is in Christ, and your fruitfulness is in Christ, and that gives you great courage, and it also gives you great humility. “I can change by the grace of God.” Are you in Adam or are you in Christ?
But so oftentimes, our activity becomes our identity. Things that explain us start to define us, and the result is, invariably, they fail us.
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