Have you ever felt like you’re not good enough for God to save you? Do you ever find yourself believing that everyone else is more deserving of salvation than you? If you can relate to these thoughts, this post is for you.
In the hustle and bustle of life, many charges are brought against us everyday with the aim of making us live a life enveloped in guilt and feelings of unworthiness. It’s as if a constant accuser, Satan himself, is shouting to us all that we have done wrong and how we don’t deserve any goodness.
Adding to this, our own consciousness works against us too, piling on guilt and feelings of unworthiness to what seems to be a pool deep enough to drown us. But here’s a powerful reality: Those who have put their faith in Christ, on the other hand, will never be found guilty, since they have been declared righteous by God before the eyes of the entire world.
In the divine court of law, we were at first declared guilty, because we all sinned and fell short of God’s Glory. If we were to stop here, our lives would have no purpose, our hearts no joy, and our future no hope. But the story doesn’t end here.
Before the final decision was given in the divine court of law, Jesus Christ offered to pay the price for our wrongdoing and set us free by shedding His blood on the cross. He gave us Grace for free by paying a terrible price for us. Without Him, we were as dead as corpses in our sins, but in Him, through His amazing Grace, we are filled with all of His fullness.
So, when we find ourselves being embraced by feelings of guilt and unworthiness; when we hear the voice of our consciousness weighing heavy on our minds for the sins and failures unwanted; when we pay attention to the enemy of our souls shouting out loud that we are not good enough, filling our hearts with great sadness; in that moment, we are invited to the throne of Grace in prayer.
We are invited to be showered with Grace and reminded of the price that was paid, not only for our sins, bringing about forgiveness, but for us to assess the Heavenly reality that He chose us, that He is for us, that He is in us, and in Him we are more than conquerors.
And when someone asks you how dare you live your life knowing you are preciously worthy in God’s eyes, extravagantly forgiven by His abundant love, and handpicked as His Masterpiece, you tell them:
When all is forgiven, there is nothing to be ashamed of, and where there is nothing to be ashamed of, there is nothing to fear, and where there is nothing to fear, there is only the magnificence of a life secured in His love!
Let us remember Romans 8:33 – “Who then would dare to accuse those whom God has chosen in love to be his? God himself is the judge who has issued his final verdict over them—“Not guilty!”
Indeed, God is the one who justifies.
Amen and hallelujah!
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