You awake on a Monday morning, in the midst of the winter season …
got guilt?
You are a mom or a dad …
got guilt?
You are a son or daughter …
a student …
an employee …
a follower of Christ …
got guilt?
Ever feel that you will never measure up?
be good enough?
be smart enough?
be successful enough?
be strong enough?
be
enough?
STOP!
Stop striving!
Stop pushing!
Stop doing,
and working,
and just …
stop!
The best thing we can ever DO, is to realize that the DOING has been done.
“God demonstrates his own love for us, in this:
while we were still sinners,
Christ died for us.”
Romans 5:8
He didn’t wait for us to do something. He didn’t wait for us to be better, to be stronger, to be smarter. He did what needed to be done ahead of time, before we even had a chance to take our first breath.
He did it all,
all for us.
He came to do what we could never do for ourselves, be our redeemer, our savior … the eraser of our guilt …
He is the reason we no longer live under condemnation (strong and damning disapproval), the reason we no longer need to live with … guilt.
“It is by grace you have been save,
through faith-
and this is not from yourselves,
it is the gift of God-
not by works,
so that no one can boast.”
Ephesians 2:8-9
We cannot ever DO anything, to improve our situation. Our doing is eternally eclipsed by what has already been done FOR us.
This is love …
without works,
without guilt.
Jesus loves us, not as we should be, but as we are …
flawed, weak, sin-filled,
even guilt-ridden.
He loves us unconditionally, but he never pushes himself at us, never guilt-trips us, never demands more that what he has already paid the immeasurable price for …
How he loves us!
“I don’t have time to maintain these regrets,
when I think about the way …
Oh how he loves us all”
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