Romans 2:4 says, “God’s kindness is meant to lead you to repentance.” Sometimes, when we sit down on our couches with God, we’re afraid he’s the mean teacher from second grade, when instead he is the safest place we’ll ever be. His presence is the only place where invisible weight is lifted. The only place where hidden, broken spaces are mended. The only place where we are defined apart from our successes and our failures. This is the gospel: [We] all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God (Rom. 3:23). And then God did what the law, could not do. He sent his own Son in the likeness of
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