Freedom

Just a few more thoughts on Law VS Grace.  The SELF-Life is very deceptive, we either are SELF-Congratulating or SELF-Condemning, we are either “patting ourselves on the back” for a job well done or “kicking ourselves in the butt” for blowing yet once more.  This is why we MUST fix our eyes on Jesus and not lose sight of Him. (see Hebrews 12:1-2).

Consider what CS Lewis wrote about this.

"As long as we are thinking that way, one or other of two results is likely to follow. Either we give up trying to be good, or else we become very unhappy indeed. For, make no mistake: if you are really going to try to meet all the demands made on the natural self, it will not have enough left over to live on. The more you obey your conscience, the more your conscience will demand of you. And your natural self, which is thus being starved and hampered and worried at every turn, will get angrier and angrier. In the end, you will either give up trying to be good, or else become one of those people who, as they say, ‘live for others’ but always in a discontented, grumbling way – always wondering why the others do not notice it more and always making a martyr of yourself. And once you have become that you will be a far greater pest to anyone who has to live with you than you would have been if you had remained frankly selfish."