The true self, as God sees it

Our true self is who we are at the spirit level. At the deepest level of your personhood you are not a sinner. You are a saint. You are God's holy, righteous, blameless child. You have His nature. In your deepest personhood, your desire are not in conflict with God's will. Your deepest being always wants to do your Father's will, just as Jesus wanted to do His Father's will (Romans 7:22, John 4:34).

This is your eternal, changeless identity. This is who you are. That you experience thoughts and feelings and even behavior to the contrary does not change that fact. Only by accepting this by faith can we begin to experience its reality.— The Rest of the Gospel: When the partial Gospel has worn you out, page 108

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The last line is the key to it all, "Only by accepting this by faith can we begin to experience its reality." Without that, it will always remain pie-in-the-sky and your faith will be like an old iron bed: strong on both ends, but weak in the middle. You will have a past assurance and a future hope, but today will be a mess and a defeat. That's how they describe it in the book, and they are so right.
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