There is a sentence you have lived by for so long that it no longer sounds like a sentence; it sounds like the truth about you. It may have come in one moment of shame or formed slowly under a parent’s temper or a friend’s betrayal, but somewhere you agreed with it, and every wound since has landed …
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517: “Nice” Isn’t a Fruit of the Spirit. Ryan Miller on Biblical Meekness, Losing Ownership of Your Life, Why the Wilderness Is a Grace, and the Distraction Keeping Us From Intimacy with Jesus
Perhaps you have learned to be agreeable rather than obedient, careful rather than courageous, quiet enough never to be accused of pride, and somewhere along the way you began calling that Christlikeness. If the fire you once carried has been sanded down into something polite and manageable, and …