The Christian life is Christ—a truth that deeply reassures our souls, focuses our hearts, and simplifies our spiritual lives. But it’s a calling that we perpetually fumble. The veil removed from our eyes in conversion gives way to clouds over our eyes in trials and sleepiness in our steps with the spiritual disciplines. The greatest challenges we face are Christ-clouding distractions. Even from within a busy life of family and work and responsibilities and complexities and ambiguities, the Christian must daily reorient his life to Christ. “Christ is all, and in all” (Col. 3:11), and our
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