If
you, O Lord, kept a record of sins, O Lord, who could stand? (Psalm 130:3)
It's no fun living under constant scrutiny, someone keeping score of all our missteps and every time we break the rules. And yet many have the impression that the Christian life is exactly like that, walking a tightrope between acceptance and rejection - with no net.
It's no fun living under constant scrutiny, someone keeping score of all our missteps and every time we break the rules. And yet many have the impression that the Christian life is exactly like that, walking a tightrope between acceptance and rejection - with no net.
Who
would want to live under condemnation for every bad choice ever made? The
psalmist is only saying what we've heard from many other biblical sources: All have sinned and fall short of the
glory of God (Romans 3:23).
Thankfully neither Paul, in his letter to the Romans, nor our psalm writer let it stop there.
All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus (Romans 3:23,24).
If you, O Lord, kept a record of sins, O Lord, who could stand? But with you there is forgiveness (Psalm 130:3,4).
Thankfully neither Paul, in his letter to the Romans, nor our psalm writer let it stop there.
All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus (Romans 3:23,24).
If you, O Lord, kept a record of sins, O Lord, who could stand? But with you there is forgiveness (Psalm 130:3,4).
And
anyone who has experienced the reality of grace cannot possibly withhold grace
from others.
Is there anyone you need to let off the hook?
Is there anyone you need to let off the hook?
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