The Secret of Rugged Joy
The secret of rugged joy in the battle with sin is to fight to become what we are in Christ.
- John Piper, When I Don’t Desire God: How to Fight for Joy (Crossway: Wheaton, 2004), 85.
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I’ve been reading When I Don’t Desire God–complements of T4G–to help wake me up in the morning. I ran across this particular quote this morning. It is a reminder to me of the identity I have in Christ. I am fighting to become what I already am–a justified son of God–rather than fighting to become what I might-possibly-could-be-one-day-with-enough-hard-work.
