Dallas Willard puts it like this: You are an unceasing spiritual being with an eternal destiny in God’s great universe. He used to encourage me to write this down and read it out loud as a reminder of my true identity: God did not plant death in the human heart. Death came because of sin. That includes my sin. Human self-sufficiency can’t get me out of this one. If I don’t have a hope that is eternal, I don’t have a real hope at all. But God made a way.
