When we consider our lives, we are either living by a pattern or rebelling against a pattern.

Do you find yourself ever hoping for a better result, but stuck in sin’s cycle of beating down your life? You know the pattern must be broken, but you simply don’t know how to break it.

The old pattern was to try hard, fail, and then live in the shame that comes after. The new pattern offered in scripture is a life of faithfulness—of stepping one foot in front of the other—towards knowledge of Christ, actioning out one’s faith, and living in faith for Christ Jesus.