Trying to earn right standing with God is a joke. We should never think that we are good enough for God? Listen, if God wanted to, He could condemn us this very moment for something in our lives. It doesn’t matter who we are; He could find something about us that would send us to hell.

 
God sees things that we are not even aware of. The reason why people do not go to hell, is because of God’s mercy in Christ. There is nothing about our lives that contribute to salvation. There are things in our lives that could justifiably damn us; things of imperfection. Thank God that He doesn’t damn the imperfect. He could, you know, but He doesn’t, if we believe the Gospel. If someone doesn’t believe he is imperfect, that is the same as saying he does not need to grow. Are you finished growing in Christ? Are you just as good as Jesus in your flesh? If you are honest you will say “no.” Christianity is the only faith, that believes in a personal God, which doesn’t try to indebt their God through works. It’s foolish to think you can indebt your own God. That would place your God underneath you. Unfortunately Christianity is becoming more and more legalistic. Pastors everywhere are constantly harping on works. They are mixing the old with the new, to a bad ending.

 
God does, however, consider habitual rebellion to be unbelief. Those clear cut cases of the impertinently ungodly reveal people who are not serious about God.

 
But even the serious are imperfect. Even the best Christian, if there is such a thing, is worthy of hell in and of himself. The only reason that a person can be self assured is because of deception. We should place our assurance not in self, but in Jesus.

 
Why am I saying this? So that you will trust entirely in the cross and be happy. You cannot be happy with even a little self assurance. This leaven will spoil the whole lump. There are only two sets of people - Jesus the Perfect and all the rest of us. A person who thinks that he deserves Heaven, only does so because he does not look at his own life closely enough. Religious legalists have trained themselves to look away and judge others. But God wants us to realize our own desperate need for the work of Jesus on the cross. He wants us to know, to really know, that it is only because of Jesus that we go to Heaven.

 
Do you know this? Or do you kind of split up the credit? Do you give a portion of the credit to yourself for God’s salvation? If you do, then stop it. Trusting in the only Savior for all your salvation is what you should be doing. And to trust in Jesus is not taking some credit, as some erroneously say. Faith in the cross is not trying to earn salvation. It’s just the exact opposite. It’s admitting that only the work of Jesus can save us.

 
There are all sorts of people who might be reading this. If you deny a personal Creator God, I am not trying for your soul right now. We must go back to the ant, the bird, and all the tiny machines in this world that prove a Creator first. We must stop being willfully blind and foolish before we can see that God made us. If you are capable of reading this, then you are not a fool. This means that deep inside you really believe in the Maker. You are suppressing it. Let it out before your conscience becomes too numb to see the truth of creation.

 
The only reason you deny a Creator is because you are looking past too many things. You think you can see the big picture, but you should be looking at little things. You should ask yourself, “How does the bombardier beetle work?” “Why is there a fragrant flower and a nose to sense it?” Try to see the thoughts of God behind creation. This may help you to believe.

 
But if you do believe in God, this blog is for you. It’s for you to help you see that God is too big to owe you anything. So enter His rest and trust in what Jesus has done. This is the only way.