Battle

Life's battle is not in conquering loneliness, making more money, losing weight, making a spouse or friendship honor us, being in school, or raising "good" children. The battle is beyond moral symptoms. It is looking into the dark parts of our heart that has created an expectation of ourselves and others that is impossible to meet without submitting to the sufficency of what came out of the cross. What we are owned and defined by drives all circumstances and behaviors. "Attempting to walk in sanctification without being changed by and driven by the Gospel is like trying to write with a pen where the ink has been taken out."