" We either live as who we are, as new creations in Christ and yield to God as he transforms us—I am the workmanship of God—or we live this mishmash of part faith and part works trying to make our lives work by our own efforts. That is the recipe for sickness, discouragement, confusion about God and disappointment with our own efforts to live a Christian life. The real Christian life is what most people miss; it is Christ living in us. Anything that shows up that doesn’t match up with Christ, it’s the old nature. We just haven’t told people ‘when the old nature shows up, consider it dead, because it is, toss it in the trash and don’t live that way. Instead rejoice that your new nature is like Jesus’ and you’ll start looking a lot like that new nature. "

― Dee Henderson , An Unfinished Death