A surefire recipe for failure

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One of the most beautiful truths Christianity teaches is justification by faith: solely through trusting in Christ’s life, death, and resurrection are we declared righteous before God. Nothing to earn, nothing to deserve, none of that. Enemies are adopted into God’s family by faith in Christ.

But it’s also the most unnatural to us. We are hardwired to want to earn… well, anything, but especially our standing in the eyes of others. And doubly so from a religious or spiritual perspective. Just...