Growth by Remembering

02/02/10

Our encouragement from yesterday's sermon from Revelation 2:1-7 was to fuel our love for Christ with remembrance. Tullian Tchividjian seems to believe the same. He recalls his reading of Elyse Fitzpatrick's Because He Loves Me: How Christ Transforms Our Daily Lives, from which he quotes:

"One reason we don’t grow in ordinary, grateful obedience as we should is that we’ve got amnesia; we’ve forgotten that we are cleansed from our sins. In other words, ongoing failure in sanctification (the slow process of change into Christlikeness) is the direct result of failing to remember God’s love for us in the gospel. If we lack the comfort and assurance that his love and cleansing are meant to supply, our failures will handcuff us to yesterday’s sins, and we won’t have faith or courage to fight against them, or the love for God that’s meant to empower this war. If we fail to remember our justification, redemption, and reconciliation, we’ll struggle in our sanctification."

Read the rest of his post here.

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