1. When we despair of ourselves, we repent of these self-justifying schemes and allow ourselves to be shaped by God, covered in Christ’s righteousness, and reborn with a new heart.
  2. This is the first in a series of articles entitled “Getting Over Yourself for Lent.” We’ll have a new article every week of this Lenten Season.
  3. We can’t remove our crosses or the reality of our deaths. Only Jesus can.
  4. People everywhere, every day, feel God’s wrath—and not as merely an afterlife threat but as a present reality.
  5. Faith, for Peter, is not suspended in religious abstraction. It is tied to something that happened in time and space.

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