Rather, when we acknowledge that we are not our own but belong to Christ, when we accept that Christ died for our sins and seek to live before Him, God looks at our face and sees the beauty and righteousness of His Son. And the judge of all assures us that we are loved, accepted, and adored. We live before a personal God, not the mechanical god of proceduralism or efficiency. The relentless, impersonal, litigious, crushing force of progress and self-improvement is ended in Christ.
