Keep Trying? No -- Quit Trying and Start Living

Hitting bottom is about much more than trying something different.

In Christ, we are called to stop trying altogether.

We are not called to live the Christian life, just as we were never called to live out the law in our lives.

"Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God." (Romans 3: 19)

and

"But after that faith is come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster." (Galatians 3: 25)

and

"Knowing this, that the law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners, for unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers," (1 Timothy 1: 7)

The law was designed, brought back to its pristine perfection by Jesus in His Sermon on the Mount, so that men and women would despair of trying to earn their righteousness by works, and thus receive it by faith.

One of the greatest perversions in the Body of Christ is the mantra of "keep trying" and "keep going" - we do not live of ourselves anymore, but in Christ we are dead and hidden in Christ (Colossiasn 3: 3-4)

When we quit trying, then the grace of God can live in us, and then we start living:

"I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me." (Galatians 2: 20)