Eccl. 7:20
There is not a single person in all the earth who is always good and
never sins.
This is a statement that is true for all people
for all time. There is not one person
who has ever lived, is now living, or shall ever live, who is so good he never
sins. This includes you and me. No matter what others may think about you or
what you may think about you, you are not as good as you may appear to be. Everyone sins and that is just a fact of
life. It doesn’t matter who you may be
in the eyes of the world or church, you are guilty of sin. If you say you aren’t, you are calling God a
liar because He says you are.
Because we are guilty of sin, we need help from
God if we are going to avoid the consequences of our sin, which is hell. God knew our plight and did what only He
could do; He became human and lived a sinless life. He then took upon himself all of our sin
penalty on the cross of Calvary when He died in our place. He who knew no sin became sin for us so we
could have our sins forgiven by God. Not
only did Jesus make it possible for God to forgive us, He made the way for God
to forget we had ever sinned! When Jesus
is our Savior, God does not look beyond the righteousness of Christ in us. It is as if we had never sinned!
Yes, we still sin because we are in the flesh
and in the world. We are perfected in
Christ be we are not perfect. Our sinful
nature still haunts and harasses us. We
are weak spiritually and will fail to measure up to God’s holy perfection. But the Good News is that when we admit our
sin and confess them to Christ, we are forgiven and our hearts are made whiter
than snow before God.
In order to not live in sin and end up in hell,
we need to stay closely connected with Christ.
We must be washed clean by His righteousness. We must stay under His righteousness and not
wander away from Him. He will protect us
and keep us pure before God as long as we let Him be our Savior and Lord. No one will ever be good enough to be with
God without Him. No one.
No comments:
Post a Comment