It's All Grace

 “I wish I could be like you.  You seem so certain in your faith and you seem to know you are going to heaven when you die, but I just don’t think I’m good enough.   Why would God want someone like me?” 

Unfortunately, that’s not an unusual conversation for me to have with someone.  Too many people worry about whether God can love them --- even them --- enough to get them in to heaven.

Well, I have the answer for all your worries today.  The answer to life (and death) does not lie within ourselves.   Our insecurity about God’s love and grace will not go away if we only work harder, if we only go forward every time there is an altar call, if we only spread ourselves too thin with activity after activity,

Instead we find the answer to our salvation in God, in His grace and His gift of a love freely given, not earned. 

We can not save ourselves by our own good works.  We will never be “good enough.” Trying to earn your way into salvation is not only impossible, it is exhausting as well, and it only increases the thirsting of your soul for something more. 

Instead we need to rely on God and salvation which is freely given.  In Ephesians 2: 8-9 we read, “By grace you have been saved through faith, and not of yourselves.  It is the gift of God, not of works, lest anyone should boast.”  

We have each been saved by Christ’s work upon the cross, and all that is required now is for us to relax into His gentle arms of love as we find new life in Him.