Scriptural text:
“But now God has shown us a different way of being right in his sight--not by obeying the law but by the way promised in the Scriptures long ago. We are made right in God's sight when we trust in Jesus Christ to take away our sins. And we all can be saved in this same way, no matter who we are or what we have done”. Rom 3:21-22 NLT
“But now God has shown us a different way of being right in his sight--not by obeying the law but by the way promised in the Scriptures long ago. We are made right in God's sight when we trust in Jesus Christ to take away our sins. And we all can be saved in this same way, no matter who we are or what we have done”. Rom 3:21-22 NLT
Considerations for today:
The means of exchange in the kingdom is ‘to believe’. Without believing there is no transaction in the kingdom. The currency of the kingdom is to believe: without believing it is impossible to please God. The righteousness of faith is not a series of activities nor religious observations. It is what a man has becoming by believing in Christ. You don’t get more righteous by the day. You can’t even get anymore righteous. God has given you all the righteousness he has when you believed; as a matter of truth you have become the very righteousness of God (2 Coo 5:21). God has shown the (only) way of being made right with Him: this is believing in the Lord Jesus Christ (Rom 3:21). God alone determines who is right and who is wrong and he has given his verdict of who is right or not. This is the verdict: Anyone who wants to come to him must BELIEVE that there is a God and that he rewards those who sincerely seek him. (Heb 11:6b).
It will take faith to agree that all the sins I have ever committed were forgiven the moment I made Jesus the Lord of my life and that there are no records of them anymore anywhere because they have been completely erased. Not even God remembers them because they have been thrown into the depth of the sea (Mic 7:19) and I don’t intend to go fishing on that sea. Even if I did I wouldn’t find them anymore.
It will require faith (believing) to agree with God that you are in his good books simply because you have confessed His son Jesus as your Lord. Let us like Paul say “I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain.” (Gal 2:21) It is a wrong to live in the ignorance of this truth being more aware of sins committed (sin consciousness) than the Grace of God through Jesus Christ by which they are forgiven completely. And this is the Grace of God: “But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness".
Meditation scripture: Psa 103:12, Rom 4: 5-8
Prayer: Lord I believe your report about me. I choose no other report, I will not listen to any other opinion. What you have said about me is my only reality.
Bible in 1 year: Mark 1 – 4
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