The Abandoning of Self-Trusting Efforts

“At the root of all our disobedience are particular ways in which we continue to seek control of our lives through systems of works-righteousness.
The way to progress as a Christian is to continually repent and uproot these systems the same way we become Christians, namely by the vivid depiction (and re-depiction) of Christ’s saving work for us, and the abandoning of self-trusting efforts to complete ourselves.
We must go back again and again to the gospel of Christ-crucified, so that our hearts are more deeply gripped by the reality of what he did and who we are in him.”

— Tim Keller