Reading this, the 9th chapter struck me as to what my pastors at GRC have been talking about in their sermon series and partially in education hour... you should always realize that you are a sinner. That only God's immense grace and your hunger for that makes you a Christian. It doesn't make you better at all, if fact, paraphrasing Tim Keller, there are people that aren't Christian that are more "good" than you are.
There shouldn't be a comparison to other people... or even a standard that you set for yourself or a standard set by someone else... there's only one standard, that's God's. And we can never really attain it. So this is the humility that Christ preached. But it also gives us joy and freedom since we can receive that gift of life, and even tell others about it.
It's still hard to really know what that means and how to LIVE it.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment