Stuck?

I wish that God's truth stuck, that lessons from God only had to be learned once.  I feel so often like I start from scratch in my Christian walk every day.  One day my identity is solid, sealed and complete.  The next I am a baby, clinging to compliments and external affirmation.  What exactly triggers this regression, I wonder?

I suppose our lives change externally so quickly that it would be silly to think that we don't have to relearn for a new reality each step of the way.  What I do know is that God knows what he is doing, and he won't stop working until I am a finished, a new creation.  The great part is that he is faithful and he will do it.