Most of all I wish I had understood what scholar N. T. Wright said: “The authenticity that really matters is living in accordance with the genuine human being God is calling you to become.”3 I didn’t know how to be me because I misunderstood the process of becoming. Too often the unfinished us is blind to what the Spirit-shaped us can be over time. Lies have felt true, damning, and permanent. We aren’t weak for falling for them. We are human. But we need to put the truth of Jesus over them now.
