@everydaygodswill

Some people look at themselves and think they’re undeserving of God’s love, grace, mercy, and blessings. They look at themselves and see a work in progress. They see their imperfections, shortcomings, and sins. They even compare their “good behavior” with someone else, but God’s not comparing us against each other. He’s comparing us to His holy standards. And if we fail in one area, we’re guilty of breaking them all (James 2:10).

Here’s good news. Anyone who hasn’t met God’s perfect holy standards is qualified for His grace. The fact that we don’t have it altogether qualifies us to receive the best of God. He’s not looking at our righteous ways. He’s looking at the righteousness of Christ. When our faith is in Christ, God treats us as if we’ve kept His law perfectly. And no, it’s not a mixture of our righteousness and Jesus’s righteousness. It’s all of Christ and none of us.

When we recognize that our righteousness is pathetic and our only hope is to rely on Jesus, who perfectly kept God’s standards on our behalf, then we’re qualified for everything God has for us.

Romans 3:22-24 NLT We are made right with God by placing our faith in Jesus Christ. And this is true for everyone who believes, no matter who we are. For everyone has sinned; we all fall short of God’s glorious standard. Yet God, in his grace, freely makes us right in his sight. He did this through Christ Jesus when he freed us from the penalty for our sins.

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