The real struggle of the Christian life is the struggle to keep His faithfulness “in our eye” instead of ours. To believe that I am in His favor by grace through faith despite who I am, or how I might fail, or what I have done, or what others have done to me. “For I am convinced that neither…”

Rather consistently, what we focus on is our faithfulness to God (obedience) rather than His faithfulness to us (Gospel). The difference between these two ideas is the difference between a pietistic theology and a reformed one.