God's grace is enough

 As humans, in one way or the other, we are bound to come short, in living a righteous life. How wonderful that the time that we live in, we no longer live under the law but under God's grace where God made us righteous with Him through Christ Jesus. Romans 5:1-2 says: "Therefore, since we have been made righteous through his faithfulness combined with our faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. We have access by faith into this grace in which we stand through him, and we boast in the hope of God's glory." By faith we are righteousness of God through Christ. This means that when Jesus was crucified on the cross, all our shame, sin, unrighteousness was crucified on His body, so that we may have a relationship with God. God sees us righteous because of what happened on the cross. We are forgiven not because of what we did, but because of what Jesus did for us on the cross. He is worthy of our praise.

What God expects of us, is to live out this reality, not feel condemned because of our past, but to accept the grace He shows us, to acknowledge His love for us. Hebrew 8:8-10 says: " For finding fault with them, he saith, Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah: Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because they continued not in my covenant, and I regarded them not, saith the Lord. For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people." In the new covenant, God longs for a healthy relationship, where His children obey Him and see Him as their God, their Father. May we accept this beautiful invitation and accept Him into our hearts.