There is a huge misconception when It comes to following Jesus with our lives. Generally, most of us feel that we aren't good enough. We have thoughts like, "I need to clean my act up first",or "God would never accept me the way I have lived" and so on and so forth. What we don't realize is that what we are really saying is that... at some point we can be good enough for God. Somehow we feel that we can earn Jesus dying on the cross for us. We somehow forget that our sins have separated us from God and that we needed Jesus to restore the relationship.
Basically I have found we usually fall into one of two camps when it comes to our sins:
1. the idea that they really aren't that bad or,
2. the idea that our sins are so awful that even God can't forgive them.
We are wrong on both accounts. Romans 5:8 shows us that we are sinners, but the good news is that it shows us that even though we have sinned, Jesus still died for us. He didn't wait until we cleaned up our act. While you and I were doing those things that we are so ashamed of, that is when He died for us. As the verse says this is how God has demonstrated His love towards us.
In my 20 + years of following Jesus I have studied all the world religions and
beliefs etc... One thing that separates following Jesus from every other religion is that in the other religions we have to become good enough to be accepted. We have to attain to some level. We have to reach up to whatever the diety is. In following Jesus, we find that we are accepted not because of what we did, but because of what Jesus did. He came to us!!!
Be encouraged today, God has demonstrated His love towards YOU!!! He sent Jesus to die for YOU!!!. And He didn't wait until you were "good enough" He already did it !!! Remember, God doesn't just love us when we are at our best, He also loves us at our worst!!! "But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us." (Romans 5:8)
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