What are you preoccupied with?

Knowing our true identity provides a second vital benefit: it enables us to live with a Christ-consciousness instead of a sin-consciousness. God doesn't want us living with a sin-consciousness. On occasion someone will ask me if I still sin. I answer, “I don't know. I'm not paying any attention.” I mostly say that to get their attention. But, truthfully, the only way you can answer a spiritual inventory question is to be watching yourself. You have to be preoccupied with you instead of God. You have to be preoccupied with below the line instead of above the line...

God did not intend for humanity to live with a sin-consciousness, but with a God-consciousness. He doesn't intend for us to live with a self-consciousness, but with a Christ-in-us consciousness. Does that mean we ignore when the Holy Spirit want to point out sin to us? Of course not. But it means we let Him do the pointing, rather than constantly looking for or assuming the presence of sin.— The Rest of the Gospel: When the partial Gospel has worn you out, page 105

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I would say this is the hardest thing for people to accept about living a grace-filled versus law-filled life. It requires a dramatic rethinking of your theology, moving from human-centered to God-centered, from "looking over your shoulder" or "waiting for the other shoe to drop" mentality to a Christ-in-you mentality.
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