Sometimes...much more often than I ever would like to admint...I find myself working with all my might to obtain perfection in God's sight. Because I have forgotten that the bad things I do that nobody knows about, the thoughts that creep into my mind that are never spoken, the things that make so ashamed to see myself as a child of a Holy God, these unlawful deeds cannot and willnot change the way God percieves me.
“God saves by sheer grace, he cannot be manipulated by moral performance.”
Justin Buzzard
No matter how much my mind tries to lie, telling me that God does not love me. That is a lie not of the truth of the Word of God that is setting me free.
[33 ] Who shall bring any charge against God's elect? It is God who justifies. [34 ] Who is to condemn? Christ Jesus is the one who died—more than that, who was raised—who is at the right hand of God, who indeed is interceding for us. [35 ] Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword? [36 ] As it is written,
“For your sake we are being killed all the day long;
we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered.”
[37 ] No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. [38 ] For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, [39 ] nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
(Romans 8:33-39 ESV)
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