When I was 25, I believed I ...

When I was 25, I believed I could change the world. At 41, I have come to the realization that I cannot change my wife, my church, or my kids, to say nothing of the world. Try as I might, I have not been able to manufacture outcomes the way I thought I could, either in my own life or other people's.
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 Tullian Tchividjian

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Submitting self to God is the only real freedom-because the deepest slavery is self-dependence, self-reliance. When you live your life believing that everything (family, finances, relationships, career) depends primarily on you, you're enslaved to your strengths and weaknesses. You're trying to be your own savior. Freedom comes when we start trusting in God's abilities and wisdom instead of our own. Real life begins when we transfer our trust from our own efforts to the efforts of Christ.
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The Gospel frees us to speak honestly about the reality of pain, confident that nothing is riding on our ability to cope with or fend off suffering.
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Our default faith mode is to trust, above all things, our own ability to create a safe, controllable, predictable world.
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God's ability to clean things up is infinitely greater than our ability to mess things up.
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Grace frees you to be honest about what you've always known to be true about yourself: that you're weaker & more afraid than you want to be.
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