24TH MAY
Romans 5:6-8
“For while we were still weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly. For one will scarcely die for a righteous person – though perhaps for a good person one would dare even to die – but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.”
You must realise that you’re helpless to save yourself if you want to find God’s help!
‘Helpless’ means there is no way you can do it. You can’t get right with God by going to every meeting your church puts on. Nor can you make things good between you and God by giving money to good causes. Being good to your family won’t do it either. Nor will getting involved in worthy causes and helping the needy.
All those activities are good, but trying that route to having a good relationship with God overlooks the important thing—doing good doesn’t deal with the ways you’ve already offended God and done what you knew was wrong.
God’s justice lovingly ensures that all the wrongs of this world will be made right, that ultimately no one will get away with the pain they’ve caused. But that same justice also creates an insurmountable obstacle to our efforts to be right with God.
God waits for us to realise that we’re helpless to save ourselves and to receive as a gift the forgiveness we could never have earned. Have you?
MAKE IT PERSONAL:
Examine your heart today before God. Have you accepted his gift of forgiveness? Are you living dependent on him…or still trying to earn points through doing good?