"Not because sin isn't serious, but because I am taking seriously who God says I am. The point isn't my failure; it is God's success in remaking me into the person he originally intended me to be."

"If people were taught more about who they are, they wouldn't have to be told what to do. It would come naturally. When we see religious communities spending most of their time trying to convince people not to sin, we are seeing a community that has missed the point. The point isn't sin management. The point is who we are now."

wrestling with being humbled and recognizing I am nothing without God while finding self worth because of the creator and the cross. walking on water and finding little faith in, not His ability, but in my ability to be used. "You of little faith, why
did you doubt?"

don't live life trying to prove - or becoming immobilized by the suspicion that you must prove- that you have great worth. be confident you do and act accordingly.