Reading: Romans 3,4
My Verse: "As it is written, None is righteous, just and truthful and upright and conscientious, no, not one." (3:10)
This is a big - huge - stumbling block. So many want to trust their salvation to their own -goodness! How often do we hear - Well, I try to be good. I hope I have been good enough to get into heaven.
Paul makes it so clear here that sin "crouches at your door, its desire is for you . . . " (Gen. 4:7)
No matter how we try, sin ends up ruling our lives one way or another. Paul graphically warns about this very thing . .
"Their throat is a yawning grave . . .
They use their tongues to deceive . . .
Their mouth is full of cursing and bitterness . . .
Their feet are swift to shed blood . . .
Destruction and misery marks their ways . . . " (Romans 3:13 - 16)
He clearly states that Christ did not make the law null and void but points out the true purpose of it. "For no person will be justified in His sight by observing the works prescribed by the Law, For (the real function) of the Law is to make men recognize and be conscious of sin." (3:20)
Justification and right standing with You, Lord, comes only through Your redemptive work. (3:24) So often pride creeps in and I think that I can be good enough - not so! My pride has to go! "Then what becomes of [our] pride and [our] boasting? It is excluded. On what principle? Of doing good deeds? No, but on the principle of faith!" (3:27)
Living under the yoke of sin is a dreadful thing as Paul warned. I am so thankful for Your salvation and blessing. For I am truly blessed! "Blessed and happy and to be envied are those whose iniquities are forgiven and whose sins are covered up and completely buried. Blessed and happy and to be envied is the person of whose sin the Lord will take no account nor reckon it against him." (4:7,8)
Thank You, My Lord and My Savior, that I do not need to depend on my own goodness to get into heaven or to have fellowship with You. For I know I am incapable on my own of attaining such a standard - for Your standard, Lord. is perfection. You only are truly Good!
Ditat Deus - God Enriches!
My Verse: "As it is written, None is righteous, just and truthful and upright and conscientious, no, not one." (3:10)
This is a big - huge - stumbling block. So many want to trust their salvation to their own -goodness! How often do we hear - Well, I try to be good. I hope I have been good enough to get into heaven.
Paul makes it so clear here that sin "crouches at your door, its desire is for you . . . " (Gen. 4:7)
No matter how we try, sin ends up ruling our lives one way or another. Paul graphically warns about this very thing . .
"Their throat is a yawning grave . . .
They use their tongues to deceive . . .
Their mouth is full of cursing and bitterness . . .
Their feet are swift to shed blood . . .
Destruction and misery marks their ways . . . " (Romans 3:13 - 16)
He clearly states that Christ did not make the law null and void but points out the true purpose of it. "For no person will be justified in His sight by observing the works prescribed by the Law, For (the real function) of the Law is to make men recognize and be conscious of sin." (3:20)
Justification and right standing with You, Lord, comes only through Your redemptive work. (3:24) So often pride creeps in and I think that I can be good enough - not so! My pride has to go! "Then what becomes of [our] pride and [our] boasting? It is excluded. On what principle? Of doing good deeds? No, but on the principle of faith!" (3:27)
Living under the yoke of sin is a dreadful thing as Paul warned. I am so thankful for Your salvation and blessing. For I am truly blessed! "Blessed and happy and to be envied are those whose iniquities are forgiven and whose sins are covered up and completely buried. Blessed and happy and to be envied is the person of whose sin the Lord will take no account nor reckon it against him." (4:7,8)
Thank You, My Lord and My Savior, that I do not need to depend on my own goodness to get into heaven or to have fellowship with You. For I know I am incapable on my own of attaining such a standard - for Your standard, Lord. is perfection. You only are truly Good!
Ditat Deus - God Enriches!
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