My soul clings to you,Your right hand upholds me.
The Gospel is for the sinner
1 John 1:8
“If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.”
I was talking with someone recently. He was telling me of his struggles in feeling that he had to be a “godly Christian” to fit in at the church he was at. He struggled to perform certain set of prescribed things to fit that image or the vision that the church had. He said that the message he had heard from the church was that God has saved you, so you can stop sinning, when in reality the message of the gospel is that Christ has saved us because we sin. He was telling me that he was now learning about the gospel and how it applied to him as a believer. And as he came to understand this, he began to be able to walk in what the Bible says a godly Christian is to be.
When we base our Christian walk on how well we do or what a “godly Christian” is, we become actors trying to fit the image of what this is thought to be. But when we come to God by grace and grace alone, we are free to be real. Because it is not about impressing men or God, for God does not need to be impressed.
My question is: Are you capable of Righteousness?
Are you real with others or do you act like you are Righteous?
Additional readings: Isaiah 6:1-7, Psalm 16:2, Galatians
