New Morning Mercies #172

If you’re God’s, to tell yourself you can’t do what you’ve been called to do is to preach private heresy. You’ve been enabled by grace.

We just never stop talking

to ourselves.

We never stop preaching

some kind of gospel

to ourselves.

It’s a gospel of

aloneness,

partiality,

poverty,

inability—

of functional hopelessness—

or

it’s the true gospel of

Jesus Christ,

a gospel of

hope,

mercy,

forgiveness,

rescue,

love,

transformation;

of never being alone,

of never being without help;

of One who is near,

of One who cares;

of a beautiful forever

awash in victory.

We’re always listening

to

what we’re preaching.

Today, what kind of gospel will you preach to you, and what effect will it have on how you live?

For further study and encouragement: Psalm 33