Gospel vs. Religion - Part 2

Just a quick follow up to Gospel vs. Religion Part 1.  Tim Keller wrote this comparison.  Pretty good stuff.  I made myself type it rather than cut & paste, just because it makes me slow down and drive it into my head and heart better.

Religion: I obey, therefore I'm accepted.
The Gospel: I'm accepted.  Therefore I obey.

Religion: Motivation is based on fear and insecurity.
The Gospel: Motivation is based on grateful joy.

Religion: I obey God in order to get things from God.
The Gospel: I obey God to get to God - to delight and resemble Him.

Religion: When circumstances in my life go wrong, I am angry at God or myself, since I believe, like Job's friends that anyone who is good deserves a comfortable life.
The Gospel: When circumstances in my life go wrong, I struggle but I know all my punishment fell on Jesus and that while He may allow this for my training, He will exercise his fatherly love within my trial.

Religion: When I am criticized, I struggle I am furious or devastated because it is critical that I think of myself as a 'good person'.  Threats to that self-image must be destroyed at all costs.
The Gospel: When I am criticized I struggle, but it is not critical for me to think of myself as a 'good person'.  My identity is not built on my record or my performance, but on God's love for me in Christ.  I can take criticism.

Religion: My prayer life consists largely of petition and it only heats up when I am in a time of need.  My main purpose in prayer is control of the environment.
The Gospel: My prayer life consists of generous stretches of praise and adoration.  My main purpose is fellowship with Him.

Religion; My self-view swings between two poles.  If and when I am living up to my standards, I feel confident, but then I am prone to be proud and unsympathetic to failing people.  If and when I am not living up to standards, I feel insecure and inadequate.  I'm not confident. I feel like a failure.
The Gospel: My self-view is not based on a view of my self as a moral achiever.  In Christ I am "simul iustus et pecccator" --> simultaneously sinful and yet accepted in Christ.  I am so bad he had to die for me and I am so loved He was glad to die for me.  This leads me to deeper and deeper humility and confidence at the same time.  Neither swaggering nor sniveling.

Religion: My identity and self-worth are based mainly on how hard I work.  Or how moral I am, and so I must look down on those I perceive as lazy or immoral.  I disdain and feel superior to "the other".
The Gospel: My identity and self-worth are centered on the One who died for His enemies, who was excluded from the city for me.  I am saved by sheer grace.  So I can't look down on those who believe or practice something different from me.  Only by grace I am what I am.  I've no inner need to win arguments.

Religion: Since I look to my own pedigree or performance for my spiritual acceptability, my heart manufactures idols.  It may be my talents, my moral record, my personal discipline, my social status, etc. I absolutely have to have them so they serve as my main hope, meaning, happiness, security, and significance, whatever I may say I believe about God.
The Gospel: I have many good things in my life - family, work, spiritual disciplines, etc.  But none of these good things are ultimate things to me.  None of them are things I absolutely have to have, so there is a limit to how much anxiety, bitterness, and despondency they can inflict on me when they are threatened and lost.