Failed Script Writers

"The salvation that God promises in Christ requires my death.... I no longer can see God as existing to make me happy, to satisfy my felt needs, even to give me a sense of well being and add a few suggestions to improve my life. He comes to kill me and to make me alive. Repentance means I give up my script; I stop pretending that I can write the story of my life. Through faith in Christ, I become a character in God's story, part of the new creation."

-Michael Horton, The Gospel Driven Life, pages 116-117