When you lose your sense of gratitude for your acceptance into God's Kingdom, you will lose your zeal for the work of that Kingdom. And you will live in daily pursuit and daily celebration of the purposes of some other kingdom (Paul Tripp, Broken Down House, 184).
Could it be that our frequent lack of zeal for ministry is due to the fact that we have lost our sense of awe, wonder, and thankfulness that God has mercifully and graciously saved us in Jesus Christ? But here is the kicker: we were created as the "image of God" to "celebrate" and "pursue." That is part of what makes us human and gives us the capacity to worship and glorify the living God. However, if Tripp is correct (and I think he is), when we fail to walk in light of God's grace, the default position is an idolatrous Babel Building project that in the end is vain, temporal, and under judgment (Rev 11:15).
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