Think about the above. Apply it to YOU, individually.
We can be so guilty of putting on a show, especially in the company of other believers. We feel we have to prove our goodness, our allegiance to Christ must be easily seen and be abundantly obvious. We need to use the right words, wear the right clothes and smile those fake smiles we have perfected in our work to create a facade.
What God would like to be abundantly obvious is the Good News, in you.
Not that you are able to beat back all of those sins, all of those failures and live as a good man….you can’t He wants to show through you that forgiveness is possible and is a free gift for the asking.
You have no need to put on an act, what God wants is you to be real, genuine, trustworthy and fair. To value justice and honor and work with a song in your heart. Our lives as an example of what forgiveness looks like, what justice is, what honor is. Not through ourselves, through Him.
There is NONE righteous, no….not one.
(When I write things like this, it is from a place of conviction, not of judgement, I am just a man…but I am realizing more every day that what we think we know about “Christianity” … a lot of it is a stench in His nostrils)
Amen