There is no other way
to be made right with God other than by faith.
In fact, without faith, we have no clue as to what is really right in
God's sight. It is God who makes it
clear how we should live. It is God who
gives us understanding and guides us on how to apply to life His ways. Without faith, living to please God is
nothing more than guess work, hoping we get it right. Without faith, everything we do is based on
our efforts and the work of Christ at Calvary is rendered meaningless.
Even if it were
possible to live right before God on our own, we would still have our sin
problem. It is impossible for right
living to take away our sins. Right
living may be able to cover up our sins in such a way that no one would ever
know what we have done, but God knows.
God knows every sin we have ever committed and holds us accountable for
them, unless we turn to Christ and let Him take them away. Only the righteousness of Christ can wash
away our sins. When Christ deals with
our sins, God then sees Christ in us instead of our sins and we are deemed to
be righteous in His sight.
God makes it very
clear that we cannot save ourselves, no matter how hard we try. We must trust in what God has done on our
behalf and on what He can do in our lives.
We must trust in His ability to do what we can't do, get rid of our sin
problem. We must believe that Christ's
righteousness alone is our salvation.
Rejecting Christ as the way, truth and life condemns one’s soul to
hell.
There is no greater
comfort than to know all is well with our souls before God. There is a deep, abiding peace that only a
righteous heart can know. It is a peace
that sees us through whatever may come our way in life. It is a peace that passes all understanding
and it is only found in Christ.
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