God is calling us to a new way.
we may feel it's spiritual to analyze ourselves and our sins.
maybe we think that by dwelling on our sins for a time and doing some sort of guilty penance, God will be pleased and restore us to a former state of "fellowship."
but the gospel is better than all of that. the gospel invites us to dwell on the work of Jesus Christ instead.
we are invited to be obsessed with the cross, not our sins.
are you infatuated with your sins when God remembers them no more?
are you obsessed with your failures instead of God's success on the cross?
are you so consumed with your struggles that you aren't looking anywhere else except upon yourself?
the Son of Man has been lifted up.
religion would have us look at our sins.
God is saying, "Look at my Son."
-andrew farley from God Without Religion
