Today’s devotional is from Max Lucado’s Grace for the Moment:
Spiritual Bankruptcy
God will show his mercy forever and
ever to those who worship and serve him.
Luke 1:50
God does not save us because of what we’ve done. Only a puny god could be bought with tithes. Only an egotistical god would be impressed with our pain. Only a temperamental god could be satisfied by sacrifices. Only a heartless god would sell salvation to the highest bidders.
And only a great God does for his children what they can’t do for themselves.
God’s delight is received upon surrender, not awarded upon conquest. The first step to joy is a plea for help, an acknowledgement of moral destitution, an admission of inward paucity. Those who taste God’s presence have declared spiritual bankruptcy and are aware of their spiritual crisis…. Their pockets are empty. Their options are gone. They have long since stopped demanding justice; they are pleading for mercy.
The Applause of Heaven
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One of my favorite verses is from the gospel of John and I believe aligns with this devotional above, it was what came to my mind after reading it. It is John 6:28-29, Jesus has just been asked by the crowd, “What must we do to do the works God requires?” Jesus answered, “The works of God is this: to believe in the one he has sent.”
That is what God considers “works”, belief in Jesus Christ! We can not save ourselves, it is something God has to do for us, as a good Father, as a gift!
May peace be with you!
myBlessedHope 