Grace in a sense is not God's blindness, nor God's desire
to pretend that our sin is absent; rather it is that he refuses to let our sin
become the defining element of our character.
Would he like us to be less sinful?
For sure, but he is focused more on our being defined by his Son than on
the absence of sin.
Satan, by contrast,
wants us to be defined by our sin regardless of our righteousness. In fact, he really doesn't worry about our
occasional acts of holiness so long as we are focused on and are increasingly
defined by our sin.
There is great
freedom that comes from understanding that it is the definition of our
character, the core of our identity that is of primary importance; our
disciplines of holiness are only tools to that end.
