Life isn't merely an 80-year trip through the buffet line of choices and then you die. Christ redeemed us from that curse and from the slavish obligation to do what we could never do. He enabled us to LOVE life and love God. The Gospel assures us that life has been reconciled by Christ to God. All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ.
Life's a whole new ball game in Jesus.
It's trusting our heavenly Father rather than fighting with him over where our life should go. It's the confidence of his presence that enables us to risk the right. It's the certainty of his forgiveness that enables us to confess the wrong. It's the harmony with his will that enables us to see life his way and want it that way. The Gospel reminds Christians that their life has been regenerated in Christ.