Recently I was reading the text of “Oh For a Thousand Tongues to Sing” and this line jumped out at me: “He breaks the power of cancelled sin, He makes the prisoner free” . The word “cancelled” has always passed me by unnoticed and, for the first time I saw that statement for what it was actually pointing out: that Christ released us from our sin AND from the obsession with continuous rehashing of forgiven sins. This led me to ponder why we’re always trying to prove our fitness to God. Are we trying to add to our redemption? Perhaps display our superiority over His other children? Maybe we don’t know why, and yet we all have this desire to construct our obedience and holiness in alignment with what we think looks like virtue. Maybe it means we make lavish promises about our dedication to Him, constructing spiritual to do lists. Maybe it means we sit down to pray and spend the whole time commiserating with God about all the times we’ve messed up. Maybe it means endlessly scrutinizing our spiritual gifts and their negative counterparts. However it shows up in our lives, the root of it is self centeredness masked as humility. In today’s episode, we discuss the simplicity of what we’ve actually been called to: simple submission to His will in this moment.
