As curators of our hearts, we have a responsibility to keep them soft. We can’t allow offenses or our own protective mechanisms to build up and become normal.
Like children resist being wiped clean after a meal, we resist repenting when we have made a mess by sinning. But God loves us too much to leave us in our sin.
Our insecure compulsions tend to act against our deepest desire to be fully known and fully loved. What if we could lay them aside and shift our focus to being amazed by God instead of obsessing over ourselves?