Do you feel good enough for God?
How good does a person have to be to get into heaven?
How good is God?
He is ALL good, in other words, He is holy.
Picture a blank white board. Let that represent holiness.
Now, let’s get extreme. Let’s say a person only ever sinned once….ever.
So, they are 99.9% perfect/holy. But what does that really mean?
Right, they aren’t perfect or holy.
So, if God were to allow them into His Presence, what would that do to God’s holiness?
Exactly, He would no longer be holy.
So, other than Jesus, has there ever been a human being that qualified for holy? Nope.
Paul reiterates God’s declaration, “There is none righteous, not even one; there is no one who understands; there is none who seeks for God; all have turned aside; together they have become useless; there is none who does good; there is not even one.”
So, why is this so important?
It means that people cannot stand before God on their own merits.
When our performance is judged against God’s Law, we ALL fail.
We need someone to intervene for us.
Well, I have good news! Someone did!
God Himself came in the form of Jesus to pay the penalty for all of our sin.
He gave us His righteousness and took on Himself our unrighteousness.
So, in exchange for our imperfection, when we place our faith in Jesus, we are given Jesus’ perfection through His grace and mercy.
This is the start of the glorious exchanged life.
His life in exchange for ours.
All accomplished on the cross; proven by His resurrection.
Now, we are free from the Law, and free to live with grace as our teacher.
The old sinner me is dead; the new me, a saint in Christ Jesus, now lives.
All credit and glory goes to Jesus…none to me. I’m fine with that.
Now, we are free to rest in His love and acceptance and to pass it along to those around us.
Beloved, have you entered into His grace by faith in Jesus’ shed blood?
Why not choose right now to turn from sin and admit there’s no way you can be holy?
Put your faith in Jesus and choose to follow Him.
It’s the best choice you could ever make!
Blessings!
Robyn