Here’s a quote from Paul Tripp’s book “How People Change” on our daily need to embrace the gospel.

It’s hard for us to embrace how weak, blind, and vulnerable sin actually makes us.  We don’t like to think that we need wisdom and correction daily.  We prefer the lie of our own self-sufficiency.  Sure, we can recognize the blindness and foolishness in others, but we like to think that we are the exception to the rule.  It is uncomfortable to see ourselves as needy and weak, but we are, and that is exactly why Christ is the only answer:

To the degree that you forget that you are a sinner; to that degree you will underestimate your daily need for Christ and the relationships in his body that are his tools of change.

We all know on some level that Christ must be our identity, meaning, purpose, hope, and goal.  Yet our self-righteousness dies hard.  We want to be at the center of our world, and we think we are capable of more independence than would be spiritually helpful.  So we tend to reduce the gospel to comfortable elements, none of which do justice to the message of grace found in Christ.

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