God is righteous (1 John 2:29) and He looks at our righteousness as filthy rags (Isaiah 64:6). No one is righteous and none of us can become righteous on our own (Romans 3:9, 10).

Sitting on my bed on the last day of the year and taking a trip down memory lane into my past, I realized I still carried a few baggages of unconquered childhood behavioral patterns that prevented me from attaining spiritual manhood.

After taking little comfort on the thought that ‘sanctification is a process of a lifetime’, a maxim I once knew suddenly popped up in my mind as if throwing open a challenge to me for the coming year 2017.