You Are Not Your Own

What is your only comfort in life and death? A. That I am not my own, but belong with body and soul, both in life and in death, to my faithful Savior, Jesus Christ.4

The first question and answer in the Heidelberg Catechism reads:

This is the fundamental lie of modernity: that we are our own. Until we see this lie for what it is, until we work to uproot it from our culture and replant a conception of human persons as belonging to God and not ourselves, most of our efforts at improving the world will be glorified Band-Aids.

Kierkegaard understood, the deepest despair occurs when we are unconscious of being in despair.