Often our moral actions are seen through our external behavior, though, as we say, our “hearts are not in it.” Such external behavior can be a valuable moral discipline, but faith is a matter of the heart and faith changes our hearts. When we honestly face up to our own sinfulness and find our justification in Christ, how can we fixate on the neighbor’s faults? Christ loves and died for the neighbor too, so if we are in Christ, how can we not partake of that love and that self-sacrifice?
