We are sinners. We sin. But in Christ our basic identity is not sinner but cleansed, whole. And as we step out into a new day in soul-calm because of that free gift of cleansing, we find that strangely, startlingly, we begin to “do his commandments”.
Dane Ortlund is the author of In the Lord I Take Refuge: 150 Daily Devotions through the Psalms.