Luther on repentance and transformation

I read the following on Justin Taylor’s blog today Between Two Worlds. I would encourage you to read the entire post. 

It is the first of Martin Luther’s 95 Thesis stated: Our Lord and Master Jesus Christ, when He said “repent,” willed that the whole life of believers should be repentance.  The following piece was written by Luther in 1521 and it beautifully communicates the principle we examined last week from Hebrews 10: 14:  "For by a single offering he has perfected for all time those who are being sanctified."  

This life, therefore, is

            not righteousness,

            but growth in righteousness,

not health,

but healing,

            not being,

            but becoming,

not rest,

but exercise.

            We are not yet what we shall be,

            but we are growing toward it.

The process is not yet finished,

but it is going on.

            This is not the end,

            but it is the road.

All does not yet gleam in glory,

but all is being purified.