My Utmost 4/3/19

Good points brother

“God will turn what might have been, into a wonderful lesson of growth for the future”

We are so quick sometimes to condemn people who fail. I posted a CS Lewis doodle video and people jumped on Lancelot, a fictional character, about his love of Guinevere and that failing, without looking at the outstanding example of chivalry he was.

All men are fallible. All.

You are not holy, you are not able in yourself be good. It is impossible.

“Why do you call me good? There is none good but the Father” said Jesus.

It is an anti gospel to preach or teach in self help type tripe. It declares that what Christ did on the Cross is a side bar of “Christianity”. The overwhelming message of the scripture is not “you can make it”, it is that you can’t. You are lost and deserve death. You cannot earn anything else.

But, through Christ and His death, we have a way. He alone covers our sin, He alone can save us from death. He was fully man, and fully God. Not a blend or a hybrid, but both fully at the same time.

Similarly we as a forgiven sinner are still fully fallible man, and fully redeemed. We fail, we fall, we mess up….but we get back up and lean on Him from whom our strength comes from. We don’t do good in ourselves, we can’t be good in ourselves, it is through Love toward Christ and His Love toward us that there is anything good about us at all.

A Christian is not a perfect example of morality, of behavior or thought. He is simply a man who realizes he is LOST and accepts the absolutely free gift of Christ’s death. He isn’t some hero or some shining light (no matter what Joel Osteen says), he is a miserable sinner who is still deserving of hell but whom Jesus Christ has paid the debt.