To subconsciously think that we are doing pretty good in our spirituality.
Give ourselves pats on the back when we give wisdom to someone.
Be proud of ourselves for spending more time in the Word this week than your best friend.
You get the picture, it's too easy to loose sight of the purpose for the Cross.
That's the most absurd thing I've ever heard!
For me, today was the day.
Today I realized how unbelievably wretched I am. How wretched we all really are.
How very little I know in regards to life itself.
How my time in the Word is pointless if I put myself on the same pedestal as Christ.
I mean, come on, He's Christ!
I was reading through Romans 7 and Paul could not have put my heart in more accurate words:
"So I find this law at work: When I want to do good, evil is right there with me. For in my inner being I delight in God's law; but I see another law at work in the members of my body, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner to the law of sin. What a wretched man I am!"
What I want to do, I don't do.
All I am is a filthy sinner.
But Praise God this chapter continues. Praise God we are more.
"Who will rescue me from this body of death? Thanks be to God- through Jesus Christ our Lord!"
No matter how horrible of people we are, there's a redeemer.
There's a Healer.
A Perfecter.
A robe of Righteousness.
A Savior.
Because, and only because, of the blood of Christ, there is no condemnation for those in Jesus.
There is
What a savior to be tortured after living a miraculous, perfect life just for us?
He thought about you on the cross.
He thought about me.
We are no longer dead to sin. We are alive in Christ.
We are free!
Is that an incredible God or what?!
Romans 8, the light at the end of every tunnel.
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