We
can’t ever be good enough or meet God’s expectations. We are born sinners,
sinful and condemned. That’s why God sent Jesus to live the perfect life we
couldn’t. As the perfect human, He paid for our sins to save us from our
condemned state.
John
3:16-18 For God so
loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him
shall not perish but have eternal life.
17 For God did not send his Son into the world
to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. 18 Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but
whoever does not believe stands condemned already because they have not
believed in the name of God’s one and only Son.
The
only way we won’t remain condemned is by believing in Jesus’ work and letting
His righteousness cover us. He then gives us the Spirit to help us live the
life He intended us to live!
Romans 8:1-4 Therefore,
there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, 2 because through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit
who gives life has set you free from the law of sin and death. 3 For what the law was powerless to do because it
was weakened by the flesh, God did by sending his own Son in the likeness of
sinful flesh to be a sin offering. And so he condemned sin in the flesh,
4 in order that the righteous requirement of
the law might be fully met in us, who do not live according to the flesh but
according to the Spirit.
How
are you and I submitting to the Spirit, allowing Him to rule our minds? What
areas of our mind do we still need help to give over?
Let’s
praise God for His mercy to save us from condemnation and live in freedom by
submitting to the Spirit!
Alice
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