My soul clings to you,Your right hand upholds me.
Nothing to offer
I say to the LORD, “You are my Lord;
I have no good apart from you.”
I asked yesterday, “Are you capable of Righteousness? . . . No, a resounding No, I have no good thing apart from God (Psalm 16:2). I bring no more to him, now, than I brought at the beginning of my salvation. . .. This is the freedom of the Gospel, we cannot earn it, we cannot prove anything, we can only trust in the work that Christ has done.
We must come to understand that our greatest righteousness is like filthy rags. We have nothing to offer Him, He has everything to offer us, and He alone gets the glory.
I recently visited my 3-year-old niece. Her parents don’t back down on teaching her about the Gospel and the scriptures. They know a child can understand the deep things of God. It’s great to be able to talk with a three-year-old about God! I was talking with her and asked her if she was going to be obedient to her parents. She had this look on her face of knowing that if she said yes that she would be lying. I told her, “You can ask God to help you to obey your parents, you know that, right.” She looked at me (she was so cute!) and said “Yes”. My niece at 3 years old understood her need for the Gospel in order to be able to obey her parents. . .. We need Him too.
How does the fact that we have nothing to offer God, and God has everything to offer us affect your Christian walk?
Additional readings: Galatians, Isaiah 42:8, Isaiah 61:3b, Colossians 1:29
