Practice trumps procedure. It is not the rules and regulations that we
try to keep that make us right with God; it’s what comes out of our hearts. The heart determines what we say and do. If the heart is not right with God, it
doesn’t matter how strict a person may be in his behavior. We are not holy because we act or talk a
certain way.
This can be a very difficult thing to
balance out in our lives because we know that our works are essential to our
faith. We tend to do the right things because
we know that is what pleases God. The
danger comes in when we get the idea that we are saved because we do those
things. Rather, we are to do what we do
because we are saved. We are made
righteous in Christ alone. Our
relationship with Christ is what motivates us to do what pleases God.
If you are relying on how you are living
for your salvation, you need to humble yourself before Christ and let Him be
your salvation. You cannot make it to
heaven based on how “good” of a person you are.
Jesus alone can make us righteous before God. If it were any other way, Jesus died in
vain. There would have been no reason at
all for Jesus to come to earth.
Everything we know and understand about God, life, and salvation would
be a lie. If works could save us then
there would be no such thing as forgiveness or true peace with God.
Jesus is THE way, truth, and life and no
one will ever be made righteous and holy before God except by Him.
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