Christian Frustration

There is a certain frustrating aspect of my Christianity that I have discovered. (A lot of this comes from my previous post.) I thought I had learned so much through AuXano, books, preaching etc. . . All of that stuff. Now I am looking back on it and I am honestly asking myself what the point was of all of that. It didn’t seem to help me all that much. That is frustrating. Especially for someone like me who thinks that everything should be able to be written down and then lived out word for word.
Jesus demands that we in some sort of way prove ourselves to Him. Not in a I can be holy and righteous on my own kind of way, but in a “I am serious about being a Christian” way. He demands that we follow Him. He accepts us just as we are, but He does not allow us to just stay that way. Grace places a higher requirement on us, not from legalistic rules, but through the revelation of grace I live to a higher standard. Wow. That blows my mind.
I will post my daily reading later today.