Thoughts from the book The Bookends of the Christian Life by Jerry Bridges & Bob Bevington...
Talking about how the Gospel, the realization of the forgiveness of Christ and how utterly sinful we are causes us to love and live the victorious Christian life. I love how in Isaiah after he's touched with the coal God's looking for someone to serve and Isaiah's like ooo Pick me! Pick me! (v. 8) It was a great reminder for me that working for the Lord should/can be so exciting that the fear is outweighed.
"Not that I have already obtained this or am already perfect, but I press on to make it my own, because Christ Jesus has made me his own. Brothers, I do not consider that I have made it my own. But one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ. Jesus."-Philippians 3:12-14