Sinner and Saint (Simul)

Our anxiety about the future is a consequence of our old self’s attempts to achieve freedom for himself apart from Christ Jesus.

Love continues to gently but endlessly pursue the narrator, despite his persistence in pulling away in the opposite direction.

This new life is marked not by fear of death but hope in eternal life.

Satan and the old Adam don't want Jesus to bear our crosses for us because that means we can't claim that we've done anything to merit God's mercy and salvation.

The only reason we're aware of our old self is in baptism, God created a new self for us.