Courage is not doing things that others are afraid of. It’s doing the things that you are afraid of. Said another way: Other people aren’t necessarily courageous because they are out there doing the things you are afraid of. They’re only courageous if they’re out there doing the things they are afraid of.
“I’m just a sinner saved by grace! I repent in the morning and I’m bound to be in sin by the evening. You know how it goes!” “Well, we’re all bound to sin now and again.” I would have identified with these statements in the past. It is more or less the message that I internalized about our relationship to sin. But let’s, for a moment, examine the words we use when we speak like that. “I’m bound to…” What are you…
