Tired of Trying to Measure Up Quotes

“When we learn to be consistent with who we are and with what is true about us because of Jesus, bearing fruit no longer means producing. It means being capable of holding the weight of the fruit he produces.”
― Jeff VanVonderen, Tired of Trying to Measure Up

“The Christian life is not an exercise in positive self-effort stemming from a negative self-conception (in the name of God). It's learning to live by faith in a way that is consistent with who we already are and what we already have because of the performance of a God who is faithful.”
― Jeff VanVonderen, Tired of Trying to Measure Up

“The only correct motive for living by God's standards is because you love Jesus and want to obey him. In fact, obedience is the natural result of dependence upon God.”
― Jeff VanVonderen, Tired of Trying to Measure Up

“[I]f you are still striving to feel that you are good enough, you are either in a blind bondage to the world's or religion's idols, not realizing that you can be free, or you are afraid to put your full trust in Christ - afraid to believe he came to make you acceptable to God, afraid to believe that he has.”
― Jeff VanVonderen, Tired of Trying to Measure Up

“For it is God's grace, not our striving, that makes us accepted and acceptable. It is his performance in Christ, not our trying hard to perform, that eradicates our shame.”
― Jeff VanVonderen, Tired of Trying to Measure Up

“Trying hard is not the solution. When someone becomes a Christian, he has a brand new identity as a child of God because of the cross of Christ. But the truth is, people are affirmed in our society, in families and even in our churches for what they do, not for who they are. When a person comes into a relationship with Christ, most of the teaching he receives is about how Christians are supposed to act, not who a Christian is as a new creation in Christ.”
― Jeff VanVonderen, Tired of Trying to Measure Up